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WEDnesday 11 June

 
Session Hall 1
Session Hall 2

09:00 - 10:30

Mine production and mine planning (2)

Applied geomechanics in mining (2)

 

Chairmen
Ken Rhodes, Kjell Larsson

Chairmen
Bre-Anne Sainsbury,
Vassilios Kazakidis

 

Developing an optimised production forecast at Northparkes E48 mine using MILP

D. Rahal, J. Dudley and G. van Hout

Influence of post-peak properties in the application of the Convergence-Confinement method for designing underground excavations

E. Alonso, L.R. Alejano, G. Fdez-Manín and F. García-Bastante

 

Simulation applications at PT Freeport Indonesia’s DOZ / ESZ block cave mine

J. Botha, S. Watson, T. Arkadius and E. Samosir

Numerical study of the mechanical behaviour of the damaged rock mass around an underground excavation

D. Saiang and E. Nordlund

 

Utilization of secondary sizing data for improved block cave mine planning

A. Sinuhaji, S. Dessureault, E. Rubio and T. Casten

Approach to estimate rock block geometry for determination of the Geological Strength Index (GSI)

B. H. Kim, F. T. Suorineni and P. K. Kaiser

 

Draw management system

A. Susaeta, G. Valenzuela, G. País and D. Carkeet

Sample selection for an AE stress measurement program at the Western Australian School of Mines

E. Villaescusa, L. Machuca and C. Windsor

 

P.T. Freeport Indonesia's Deep Ore Zone mine - expanding to 80,000 tonnes per day

T. Casten, L. Rachmad, T. Arkadius, K. Osborne and M. Johnson

Prediction of failure and fallouts in access drifts at the Kiirunavaara mine using numerical analysis

C. Edelbro

 

  

Determination and verification of the longitudinal deformation profile in a horse-shoe shaped tunnel using two-stage excavation

P. Zhang, J. J. Yin, E. Nordlund and N. Li

Coffee/Tea

 

 
Session Hall 1
Session Hall 2

11:00 - 12:15

Mining equipment and mine automation (3)

Miscellaneous

 

Chairmen
Greg Baiden, Aditya Parida

Chairmen
Finn Ouchterlony, Brad Baker

 

Bulk material transport in open cast mine – A study of design criteria

N. K. Nanda

Industry perspective on Swedish mining research and development for sustained competitiveness

L.-E. Aaro, U. Marklund, M. Lindvall and G. Bäckblom

 

Simulation of truck haulage queue system at an open pit mine using SIMIAN

D. Saiang

Valuation of the productive chains of the global metallic mining using innovating tools of environmental management

S. A. Moreno, J. M. Rodriguez and J. A. Espi

 

Enhancement of mining machineries availability trough supportability

B. Ghodrati

Development of a corrosivity classification for cement grouted cable strand in underground hard rock mining excavations

E. Villaescusa, R. Hassell and A.G. Thompson

 

On Line identification of minerals and bulk solids with the aid of laser induced fluorescence

J. Pollmanns

Fire simulation in underground mines, smoke propagation and emergency plan evaluation

F. Giorgetti, G. Riganti and M. B. Díaz Aguado

 

GIRON and WOLIS – Two mine applications

B. Adlerborn and M. Selberg

Work culture and gender issues in a changing technical context - Examples from LKAB iron ore mine in Kiruna

L. Abrahamsson and J. Johansson

Lunch

 

 
Session Hall 1
Session Hall 2

13:45 - 15:00

Mine production and mine planning (3)

Transition of mining method (2)

 

Chairmen
Rauno Pitkänen, Allan Moss

Chairmen
Graham Swan, Doug Stead

 

Prediction of confidence interval for the availability of the reserve stopes in the underground mining using Markov chains

S. E. Jalali, S. A. Hosseini, M. Najafi and M. Ameri

Design and development update of the Grasberg block cave mine

C. A. Brannon, T. P. Casten, S. C. Hewitt and C. Kurniawan

 

Impact of rock type variability on production rates and scheduling at the DOZ-ESZ block cave mine

C. Kurniawan and T. B. Setyoko

Update on the Bingham Canyon mine underground studies

T. Brobst, M. Gaida and B. Dahl

 

Block cave scheduling with a piece of paper

T. Diering

Quantitative forecasting of sidewall stability and dilution in Sub-level caves

F. Reusch, D. Beck and D. Tyler

 

Orebodies in shear: The role of geological controls and the implications for mine planning and design

F. T. Suorineni and P. K. Kaiser

Chuquicamata underground mine - project status update

S. Fuentes and E. Adam

 

The Management of Wet Muck at PT Freeport Indonesia’s Deep Ore Zone Mine

E. Samosir, J. Basuni, E. Widijanto and T. Syaifullah

Grasberg block cave access and logistics support systems

S. Hewitt, Sudjatmoko, T. Casten and C. Brannon

Coffee/Tea

 

 
Session Hall 1
Session Hall 2

15:45 - 17:00

Mine production and mine planning (4)

Mass mining, mine design and case studies (3)

 

Chairmen
Lars-Eric Aaro, Göran Bäckblom

Chairmen
David Beck, Håkan Sellden

 

Optimum open pit design with the use of genetic algorithm

H. N. Mirzaii and R. Khalokakaie

A back analysis of dilution and recovery in longitudinal sublevel caving

J. Player  and V. Perera

 

Geotechnical considerations for planning and design of open stopes

E. Villaescusa

Implications of widely spaced drawpoints

A. van As and G. J. van Hout

 

Faster drifting in mining, some aspects

G. Nord

A review of sublevel caving current practice

G. Power and G. D. Just

 

Maximising capital development using the theory of constraints –
a theoretical approach

A. van Wageningen

Non-dilution draw method and its application in sub-level caving mines in China

Z. Zhigui and L. Xingguo

 

Optimizing productivity through performance measures for underground mining industry

A. Gustafson, A. Parida and A. Nissen

Preconditioning implementation on rock bulks in Codelco Chile and its results

R.E. Molina, C.B. Cerutti, J.O. Henriquez, R.F. Morales and R.A. Apablaza

 

 
Session Hall 1

17:00 - 17:15

closing Session