The 10th deepest open pit mines in the world are raked as follow: Bingham Canyon Mine (USA): > 1.2 km Chuquicamata (Chile): ...Read more
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The assessment of slope stability does not frequently account for the interaction between stress, rock mass damage and water pressure ...Read more
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Most mine ventilation engineers are involved in ventilation planning and design in some capacity. Ventilation modelling software used by a ...Read more
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On 12 August 2019, a 47-year-old contractor, Mr Andrew Bray, was fatally injured when a Caterpillar D10T dozer (DZ 813) ...Read more
Short-term seismic hazard based on the stability analysis methods of the 1990s is part of the deep mine culture of ...Read more
Crystalline silica is a form of silicon dioxide which occurs naturally in the Earth’s crust. When it is broken up ...Read more
There has been a strong trend over the past decade in hard rock mines towards the use of very high ...Read more
With hardrock mines using mobile equipment with ever larger diesel engines in ever larger development dimensions, the use of traditional ...Read more
