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Tuesday 10 June

 
Session Hall 1

08:30 - 09:30

Plenary Session (2)

Chairman: uday kumar

08:30 - 09:00

Research in Mass Mining (ICS and MMT projects)
Gideon Chitombo, Bryan Mining and Geology Research Centre/
Alan Guest, De Beer's

09:00 - 09:30

Sublevel Caving - Past and Future
William Hustrulid, Professor Emeritus, University of Utah
Rudolf Kvapil, Consultant Emeritus, Tucson, Arizona

Coffee/Tea

 

 
Session Hall 1
Session Hall 2

10:15 - 12:00

Mining equipment and mine automation (2)

Applied geomechanics in mining (1)

 

Chairmen
Christoph Mueller, Uday Kumar

Chairmen
Charlie C Li, Ernesto Villaescusa

 

The introduction of IT into mass mining: the digital mine in Hambach surface mine

R. M. Schmitz, U. Kübeler, F. Elandaloussi, D. Lau and R-J. Hempel

Evolution of ground support practices on Henderson’s lower levels

R. Golden Jr. and L. Fronapfel

 

Measurements of borehole deviation in sublevel caving fans at Kiruna Mine

C. Quinteiro and S. Fjellborg

New haulage level at Kiirunavaara — rock mechanics challenges and analyses

J. Sjöberg and L. Malmgren

 

Mechanized continuous drawing system: A technical answer to increase production capacity for large block caving mines

V. Encina, F. Baez, F. Geister and J. Steinberg

Geomechanical behaviour during the explotation of converging sectors in El Teniente mine

S. López Norambuena and H. Constanzo Beitia

 

Primary jaw crusher inside underground mines,  parameterization, optimization infrastructure and advantages. Simulation of the grinding
effects on rock fragmentation

G. Riganti and F. Giorgetti

Practical considerations and models of the sublevel caving exploitation ‘Tinyag’ in Peru

D. Córdova, J. Cuadros and L.R. Alejano

 

Application of seismic systems to pin-point the location of the drill bit in real time

C. Cosma, A. Nordqvist and G. Bäckblom

Design of instope pillars in cut and fill mining for a gold mine in Ethiopia

K. A. Rhodes and T. Rangasamy

 

Atlas Copco infrastructureless guidance system for high-speed autonomous underground tramming

J. Larsson, J. Appelgren, J. Marshall and T. Barfoot

A review of fibrecrete quality control at the Argyle diamonds
underground project

P. Evans and A. Weir

 

Rapid ramp haulage at Stawell gold mine

G. Wells, T. Cole and R. Almqvist

Methodology for estimating the “serviceability” of the UCL pillars at El Teniente mine, new mine level project, Codelco Chile

P. Vásquez Vidal, J. Rubio Perez and  P. Cavieres Rojas

Lunch

 

 
Session Hall 1
Session Hall 2

13:30 - 15:00

Caving processes and gravity flow

Subsidence and slope stability

 

Chairmen
Yves Potvin, Andre van As

Chairmen
Christina Dahnér-Lindqvist,
Peter Kaiser

 

Real time sensing of rock flow in a block cave mine

G. R. Baiden, Y Bissiri and A. V. Saari

 

Numerical analysis of the influence of geological structures on the development of surface subsidence associated with block caving mining

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

 

Simulating irregular cave propagation using PCBC

N. Burgio and T. Diering

Numerical analysis of the hangingwall failure at the Kiirunavaara mine

T. Villegas and E. Nordlund

 

An experimental review and simulations of gravity flow in coarse materials for block/panel caving

R Castro and R. Trueman

Effect of rainfall on dump slope stability: A numerical approach

R. Koner and D. Chakravarty

 

Calibration of mixing model to predict grade at Freeport’s DOZ Mine

D. Villa, R. Prasetyo and T. Diering

Slope stability analysis using probabilistic method: a case study

A. Barabadi and J. Barabady

 

Computational modelling of fines migration in block caving operations

C. R. Leonardi, D.R.J. Owen, Y. T. Feng and W. J. Ferguson

Rock mechanics work at the Aitik open pit

 J. Sjöberg and P-I. Marklund

 

Block cave instrumentation, monitoring and management – A case example from Northparkes Lift 2

D. P. Allison and W. de Beer

Numerical simulation of the hangingwall subsidence using PFC2D

T. Villegas and E. Nordlund

Coffee/Tea

 

 
Session Hall 1
Session Hall 2

15:45 - 17:00

Mass mining, mine design and case studies (2)

Transition of mining method (1)

 

Chairmen
Gunnar Nord, William Hustrulid

Chairmen
Peter Moser, Thomas Hedberg

 

Tongkuangyu mine’s phase 2 project

L. Yuming and Z. Jinfeng

Interaction between deep block caves and existing, overlying caves or large open pits

D. Beck and M. Pfitzner

 

Cave management ensuring optimal life of mine at Palabora

D. D. Pretorius and S. Ngidi

A model for determining optimal transition depth over from open-pit to underground mining

E. Bakhtavar, K. Shahriar and K.Oraee

 

Bingham Canyon – North Rim Skarn cave

D. Hersant, R. Atkins and J. Singleton

Planning the transition from SLC to block caving operations at Ridgeway gold mine

P. Manca and G. Dunstan

 

Tunneling and construction for 140.000 tonnes per day - El Teniente mine – Codelco Chile

G. Díaz Copier and E. Morales Caro

Geomechanics considerations in the Grasberg pit to block cave transition

E. C. Wellman, D. E. Nicholas and C. A. Brannon

 

Initiation, growth, monitoring and management of the 7210 cave at Henderson Mine - A case study

G. Carlson and R. Golden Jr.

Investigation of Underground Mining Potential at Xstrata Copper’s Ernest Henry Copper-Gold Mine

C. Carr, S. Perkins, M. Board, P. Ellen and A. Harrison

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