Mass Mining Diamonds
Author(s): Daniel Lagacé and Jarek Jakubek Mass mining diamonds including block caving, incline caving, front caving, sub-level caving…
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 Model Development For Caving Design
Author: Ian de Bruyn SRK performed a comprehensive geotechnical model development for an existing large panel caving operation…
Automation in a Cave Mining Environment
Author: Iouri Iakovlev In general, automation is most effectively applied to repetitive tasks, such as production loading and…
Mudrush Dynamics In Underground Mining
Author: Jarek Jakubec Mudrush, mudflow, or mudpush are the most common terms describing uncontrolled ingress of assorted mixture…