Hecla Mining’s Casa Berardi is a gold mine and mill located in western Québec, some 95 kilometres north of La ...Read more
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The presentation gives an introduction to sublevel caving (SLC), the types of SLC mines, mine design of SLC, geotechnical considerations ...Read more
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This case study explores the transformative impact of integrating human-centered design (HCD) principles into open pit mining operations, with a ...Read more
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Diamond drill core is typically the only available source of geotechnical information during the investigation phase of mining projects. In ...Read more