Mass Mining Diamonds
Author(s): Daniel Lagacé and Jarek Jakubek Mass mining diamonds including block caving, incline caving, front caving, sub-level caving…
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….
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…