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Foundation Reuse Is the Future
By Andy Boeckmann
Engineers and owners widely recognize the benefits of foundation reuse - cost savings, reduced construction schedules and reduced environmental impacts, among others. Yet for many projects with existi
Jul 1, 2022
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Long, High-Capacity Ground Anchors for Soldier Pile Walls
By Bryan Bet
Retaining wall systems of soldier pile ground anchors (SPGAs) have been used for many decades to stabilize landslide activity. Due to successful use of these walls to address slope instability on the
Jul 1, 2022
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Suction Bucket Installation
By Avi Shonberg
With the advancement of offshore wind farm projects towards deeper waters and larger wind turbine generators, founda- tion solutions other than the monopile have received increasing attention over the
Jul 1, 2022
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Soil Mixing Evolution in San Francisco
By Rob Jameson
"San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality." So said Paul Kantner of the local '60s icons, Jefferson Airplane, and his words have still held true. The rate, scale and complexity of recent
Jul 1, 2022
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Experimental and CFD Simulation Techniques for Coal Dust Explosibility: A Review
By Santosh Kumar Ray, DEBASHISH MISHRA, Niroj Kumar Mohalik, SOMU MANDAL, Jai Krishna Pandey, Asfar Mobin Khan
Coal is a low-cost and high-calorific-value fuel. The coal mining industry worldwide has been suffering from severe accidents due to coal dust explosion hazards since its inception. Statistically, it
Jun 29, 2022
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Wall control blasting – the influence of engineering geology on blast design
By T N. Little
This paper is concerned with the influence of engineering geology on design of Wall Control Blasts. In the Introduction, the Blast Management Framework and the Blast Design Requirements classification
Jun 22, 2022
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How innovation trumps isolation, one mine at a time
By J Pearce, R Ramanathan
hortly after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the words ‘social distancing’ entered the global lexicon. The effects on the public of social distancing, lockdowns and travel
Jun 22, 2022
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Strategic short-term geotechnical design
By K T. Mandisodza, T J. Cartledge
The principal objective of Geotechnical Engineers supporting operating mines is to provide safe working conditions and ensure that pit designs are geotechnically optimised to site conditions and pre-d
Jun 22, 2022
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Learning from and managing a significant saprolite instability
By M Bouare, C Holland, K N’Diaye
Two adjacent open pits in Mali hosted by deeply weathered saprolitic materials were mined consecutively over the course of approximately 12 months. During excavation, both pits experienced significant
Jun 22, 2022
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Improvement of blast efficiency at Rio Tinto Borates and Lithium Mine in California, USA
By J Furtney, W Fu, D Nutakor, A Brose
Rock blasting outcomes are often a shared responsibility of both the mine operations group and the mine geotechnical group. From an operational logistics and planning perspective, blasting concerns in
Jun 22, 2022
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Quantifying iron ore ‘handleability’ to reduce processing plant delays
By P Cherepanskiy, G Elphick, R Hus, C Perring
When an iron orebody nears its end of life, the extracted material can become increasingly problematic to handle. Higher moisture content occurs as larger portions of originally-below-water-table mate
Jun 22, 2022
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Inferring the earth moving equipment–environment interaction in open pit mining
By M Balamurali
In mining, grade control generally focuses on blasthole sampling and the estimation of ore control block models with little or no attention given to how the materials are being excavated from the grou
Jun 22, 2022
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Re-defining Compliance Planning through data integration and ultra-short-term scheduling
By C Fong
Compliance Planning is an active approach to ensure mining operations align more closely to their longer-term plans. Through Compliance Planning, operations can not only measure their performance on i
Jun 22, 2022
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Applying control frameworks to enhance vehicle interaction technology outcomes
By P Standish
Qualitative risk assessment methods are not well suited to considering complex systems and potential interactions of new technology. As part of supporting tier one mining organisations and internation
Jun 22, 2022
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Back analysis of pit slope performance in a saturated alluvial sediment
By J Player, G Sweby
The material properties and hence performance of saturated alluvial sediments slope can be incorrectly forecast if the water content is not preserved, and materials properties not correctly determined
Jun 22, 2022
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Mine to mill study – Bond Work index as factor for intrusive and non-intrusive rock type
By W F. E Ouedraogo
This study data has been collected on a three-month period from November 2020 to January 2021 and based on three different pits: Vindaloo Main, Vindaloo Central and Bouere. Both pits having specific g
Jun 22, 2022
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Scaled depth of burial application to increase blast efficiency in PT. Indo Muro Kencana
By A Suwandhi, H Utama
PT. Indo Muro Kencana (PT.IMK) is a gold mine that is located in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Drilling and blasting activity is applied in order to support mining production. Drilling and Blasting (
Jun 22, 2022
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Blast design and execution drives mine site profits
By J Loeb, J Dampney, P Cameron
Optimisation of Blast Design and Execution must be done right the first time. It is too late after the ore is broken. Consequences of poor design and execution negatively affect productivity from load
Jun 22, 2022
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Mining method, and controls, to cut back a failed slope at KCGMs Fimiston Pit (KCGM Superpit)
By C E. Woolley, H Jebaliya, J Foster
The East wall of the Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines Fimiston Open Pit (KCGM Superpit) has a history of wall instabilities impacting mining operations; the most significant of which occurred in May
Jun 22, 2022
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The use of collaboration and management to turn-around the performance of a failing copper mine
By M Jacobs
This abstract discusses a heap leach copper mine that was failing to perform and as a result was not meeting targeted production. The mine had numerous technical challenges including: high water inflo
Jun 22, 2022