Making the Most of Your Cave Mining Forum Membership
The Cave Mining Forum offers a space designed to support technical learning, professional development, and industry-wide collaboration. For…
Students in Cave Mining: How to Build Knowledge, Confidence, and Positive Connection in the Cave Mining Forum
The transition from classroom to career is rarely a straight path—especially in mining. For students and new professionals…
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…
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….
Automation in a Cave Mining Environment
Author: Iouri Iakovlev In general, automation is most effectively applied to repetitive tasks, such as production loading and…
The Importance Of Post-Drilling Assessment
Author: Carl Kottmeier In sublevel caving operations, it is imperative that the production blastholes be drilled accurately so…