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Monday 9 June

 
Session Hall 1

08:30 - 09:15

Opening Session

 

Plenary Session 1

Chairman: Erling Nordlund

09:15 - 09:45

Rio Tinto - A Strong Future in Copper
Clive Latcham, Mining Executive Copper, Rio Tinto

09:45 - 10:15

Mining in the Nordic Countries
Pekka Särkkä, Professor, Helsinki University of Technology

10:15 - 10:30

MassMin Award Ceremony

Coffee/Tea

 
Session Hall 1
Session Hall 2

11:15 - 12:30

Mass mining, mine design and case studies (1)

mining induced seismicity

 

Chairmen
Rauno Pitkänen, Craig Stewart

Chairmen
Loren Lorig, Raul Fuentes

 

Design of extraction layout for the Chuquicamata underground mine project

E. Arancibia, F. Carrasco, S. Fuentes and J. Guarda

The application of seismic monitoring to the future Lift 2 block cave at Palabora mining company

S.N. Glazer and P Townsend

 

Constructing and operating Henderson’s new 7210 production level

M. F. Callahan, K. W. Keskimaki and L. C. Fronapfel

Characterizing caving induced seismicity at Ridgeway gold mine

M. Hudyma and Y. Potvin

 

Northparkes E26 Lift 2 block cave – A case study

I. T. Ross

Application of joint seismic event location techniques at Chuquicamata
open pit mine, Chile

C.-I. Trifu, V. Shumila and I. Leslie

 

Panel caving at the Resolution copper project

C. Pascoe, M. Oddie and I. Edgar

Locating Seismic Events in Mines containing Strongly Heterogeneous Media

R. Sewjee, R. Lynch and C. du Toit

 

Lessons learned in cave mining at the El Teniente mine over the period
1997-2007

O. Araneda and A. Sougarret

Enhanced spatial resolution of caving-induced microseismicity

J. M. Reyes-Montes, W. S. Pettitt and R. P. Young

Lunch

 

 
Session Hall 1
Session Hall 2

13:45 - 15:00

Mine production and mine planning (1)

caving processes, gravity flow and applied geomechanics

 

Chairmen
Monica Quinteiro, Peter Edmunds

Chairmen
Jonny Sjöberg, Nadhir Al-Ansari

 

Dilution behaviour at Codelco panel cave mines

A. Susaeta, E. Rubio, J. Henríquez and G. País

Interpreting caving mechanisms using microseismic monitoring data

Y. Potvin and M. Hudyma

 

Estimation of remaining broken material at división Andina

F. Alcalde, M. Bustamante and A. Aguayo

Seismically active volume around the cave and its relation to the caving stages

S. N. Glazer

 

Recovery of extraction level pillars in the Deep Ore Zone (DOZ) block cave, PT Freeport Indonesia

H. Sahupala, C. Brannon, S. Annavarapu and K. Osborne

Quantitative analysis of fractured rock masses using a discrete fracture network approach: Characterisation of natural fragmentation and implications for current rock mass classification systems

D. Elmo, D. Stead and S. Rogers

 

Techniques to assist in back analysis and assess open stope performance

P. Cepuritis

Numerical analysis of pit wall deformation induced by block-caving mining: A combined FEM/DEM - DFN synthetic rock mass approach

D. Elmo, A. Vyazmensky, D. Stead and J. Rance

 

Reliability center mine planning model for caving operations

E. Rubio, S. Troncoso and R. Prasetyo

Rock mass disassembly during caving propagation at the El Teniente mine, Chile

A. Brzovic, E. Villaescusa and D. Beck

Coffee/Tea

 

 
Session Hall 1
Session Hall 2

15:45 - 17:15

Mining equipment and mine automation (1)

Blasting

 

Chairmen
John Martin, Mikael Grage

Chairmen
Hans de Ruiter, Pekka Särkkä

 

Adding mining specific value to underground network communications

Ch. Mueller

Experimental investigation of blastability

M. Wimmer, P. Moser and F. Ouchterlony

 

Equipment automation for massive mining methods

D. Burger and B. Cook

A gas pressure-based drift round blast design methodology

W. Hustrulid and J. Johnson

 

Long hole drilling in Chilean underground mines applications, capacities and trends

A. Zablocki

Impact of rock blasting on mining engineering

Z. X. Zhang

 

Blind boring system

P. Kogler

Blasting against confinement, fragmentation and compaction in model scale

D. Johansson, F. Ouchterlony, J. Edin, L. Martinsson and U. Nyberg

 

Automated emulsion delivery in underground production up-holes

G. Liggins, B. Smith, D. Randall and S. Thomson

The fragment size distribution of Kiruna magnetite, from model-scale to run of the mine

M. Wimmer, F. Ouchterlony and P. Moser

 

 

Sublevel caving trial – monitoring effects from blasting an ore slice against caved rock at LKAB’s Kiruna mine, Sweden

T. Newman, W. Hustrulid and C. Quinteiro

 

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