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Safe Mining Practices: A Comprehensive Guide to Maximizing Mine Safety and Worker Protection
The Evolution of Safe Mining Practices The history of safe mining practices is marked by tragedy and triumph,…
Introduction to Cave Mining: Advantages, Features, and Key Players
What is Cave Mining? Cave mining, for those who are new to the term, is a highly specialized,…
Mass Mining Diamonds
Author(s): Daniel Lagacé and Jarek Jakubek Mass mining diamonds including block caving, incline caving, front caving, sub-level caving…
Addressing the Challenges and Future of Cave Mining
It is important in an industry such as cave mining to keep up-to-date knowledge, experience and best practice…
Geomechanical Design For The World’s Largest Underground Mine
Author: Esteban Hormazabal The Chuquicamata underground mine in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the…
Open Pit To Underground Transition
Author: Simon Hanrahan SRK carried out a scoping study on an existing open pit operation (12 Mtpa) that…
Planning Considerations For Transition From Open Pit To Underground
Author: Peter Terbrugge Many ore deposits extend vertically, a fact which is not always known at the start…
Geotechnical Data Collection And Approach To Modelling For Cukaru Peki
Author: Neil Marshall A geotechnical model is the fundamental basis for the design of open-pit and underground mines….
Geotechnical Model Development For Caving Design
Author: Ian de Bruyn SRK performed a comprehensive geotechnical model development for an existing large panel caving operation…
Rapid Cave Design And Production Scheduling
Author: Scott Loewen For early stage caving projects, there is usually a high degree of uncertainty in the…
Automation in a Cave Mining Environment
Author: Iouri Iakovlev In general, automation is most effectively applied to repetitive tasks, such as production loading and…
Cave Mining Risks – Not Necessarily Greater, But Definitely Different
Author: Neil Winkelmann Are you familiar with cave mining risks? Cave mining, and in particular block-cave mining, stands…
Mudrush Dynamics In Underground Mining
Author: Jarek Jakubec Mudrush, mudflow, or mudpush are the most common terms describing uncontrolled ingress of assorted mixture…
The Importance Of Post-Drilling Assessment
Author: Carl Kottmeier In sublevel caving operations, it is imperative that the production blastholes be drilled accurately so…
Accounting For Micro-Defects In Rock Mass Rating
Author: Andy Thomas In 2001, Laubscher’s Mining Rock Mass Rating (MRMR) classification system (Laubscher and Jakubec, 2001) introduced…
Micro-defects: GSI For Fragmentation Assessment?
Author: Andrea Russo Recently, SRK Chile was involved in a caving project in Chile and in charge of…
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