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    Seismic Hazard Assessment and Mapping: A Comprehensive Case Study at Vale’s Garson Mine, Sudbury, ON Canada - RASIM2022

    By Matthew Price, Laura Brown, Atulya Verma, Samantha Espley

    Burst-prone conditions are a significant hazard in deep hardrock mines, elevating the risk to excavation stability and, more importantly, to worker safety. As mining progresses deeper, induced stress

    Apr 26, 2022

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    Performance of Normet Self Drilling Dynamic Bolt (SDDB®) Types in Dynamic Loading – The Energy Dissipating Hollow Core Rockbolt Installed in Normet’s Urea-Silicate Injection Resin - RASIM2022

    By Renee Royer, Allan Punkkinen

    As mines progress to ever increasing depth, new challenges are encountered with serious concerns for rock excavations in highly stressed conditions. New procedures have been undertaken or are under wa

    Apr 26, 2022

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    Single impact dynamic test of a ground support system with a high-tensile steel wire mesh at the Walenstadt testing facility - RASIM2022

    By E Marambio, R Brändle, G Fischer, G von Rickenbach, L Burgos, R Luis Fonseca

    Ground support systems must provide safe and effective designs for underground excavations under high stress conditions. These systems must be capable to resist dynamic impacts and yielding during the

    Apr 26, 2022

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    Insights into practical decisions surrounding hydraulic fracturing trials from numerical modeling - RASIM2022

    By Ulf B. Andersson, Christina Dahnér-Lindkvist, Bruno Figueiredo, Jessa Vatcher, Jonny Sjöberg, Joel Andersson

    Hydraulic fracturing to precondition the rock mass in high seismic risk environments has great potential. Unfortunately, there are many unanswered questions about how to best implement a hydraulic fra

    Apr 26, 2022

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    Deep Mill Level Zone (DMLZ) underground mine planning evolution, PT Freeport Indonesia, Papua, Indonesia - RASIM22

    By Bastiawarman Rifki, Nugraha Nico, Priatna Anton

    The Deep Mill Level Zone (DMLZ) is one of the underground mines operated by PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI). DMLZ is located approximately 1,500 m below ground level, where dominant rock types are skarn

    Apr 26, 2022

  • SME
    Geology and Seismicity at PT Freeport Indonesia’s Deep Mill Level Zone mine - RASIM2022

    By David Beck, Eko Wibowo, Hendri Silaen, Andres Sugiyanto, Karl Llewelyn

    PT Freeport Indonesia’s Deep Mill Level Zone mine is one of the deepest block cave mines in the world and is in mountainous terrain in West Papua, Indonesia. The mineralization is hosted in a skarn de

    Apr 26, 2022

  • SME
    Applied Seismic Monitoring for Decision Making in Deep Hard Rock Mines - RASIM 2022

    By Brad Simser

    Several case histories from Glencore’s Sudbury Operations show how passive seismic monitoring data is used for geotechnical decision making. The data comes from three different seismic arrays monitori

    Apr 26, 2022

  • SME
    Numerical Modelling and probabilistic Seismic Hazard Estimation in Panel Caving mines, Case study at Reservas Norte, El Teniente mine - RASIM2022

    By Juan Andres Jarufe, Carlos Cifuentes

    Numerical modelling has been extensively used to estimate plastic displacement in faults and rock mass surrounding mine excavations. Particularly, for fault slip seismicity, modelled plastic displacem

    Apr 26, 2022

  • SME
    Managing the development of secondary drawpoints in high stress areas at Goldex Mine RaSiM10 (Rockburst): 2022 Proceedings

    By Véronique Falmagne, Chantale Doucet, Thomas Côté

    Production began in the Deep 1 zone of Goldex mine in 2017 at a depth of 1,200 m. Stope dimensions are 50 m high by 22 m wide (along strike) and the panel thickness varies between 22 to 35 m. The Deep

    Apr 26, 2022

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    Micro- and macro-structural investigations of faulting in deep South African gold mines - RASIM2022

    By Nomuqhele N. Nkosi, Yasuo Yabe, Musa D. Manzi, Raymond J. Durrheim, Siyanda B. Mngadi

    This study examined rock failure in brittle rocks hosting the deep gold-bearing ore bodies on scales between millimeters and kilometres. This research study is part of the International Continental sc

    Apr 26, 2022

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    The Limited Scope of Some Static Support Systems in the Mitigation of Rockburst Events - RASIM2022

    By Fredy A. Elorrieta Agramonte, Gabriel von Rickenbach, Roberto Luis Fonseca, David Córdova Rojas, Rolando Romero, Rico Brändle

    The mine’s economic life is dynamic by nature. Some factors that create this scenario are the need to recognize new exploitation areas, the evolution of the mineral prices and the development of new t

    Apr 26, 2022

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    Integrated Mine Monitoring System on Managing Seismicity Risks Impact to Mining Production in PT Freeport Indonesia - RASIM 2022

    By Amri Priambodo, Ian Leslie, Valérie Laflèche, Agustina Ratnaningrum, Robin Paine, Andrianus Sinaga, Willem de Beer

    Freeport Indonesia consists of surface, civil and underground mining areas exposed to numerous geotechnical risks and hazards. PTFI uses various monitoring systems (Micro-Seismic, Firefly Light System

    Apr 26, 2022

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    Measuring the impact of Hydraulic Fracturing in DMLZ Block Caving Mine using Shear Wave Splitting - RASIM2022

    By Erwin Riyanto, Roy William, Karl Llewellyn

    The Deep Mill Level Zone (DMLZ) mine is currently one of the deepest block cave mines in the world. The rock mass is heavily veined with little to no joints and faults are usually healed cohesive stru

    Apr 26, 2022

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    Establishing a testing criteria to relate the in-situ performance of static and dynamic capable mesh - RASIM 2022

    By M. du Plessis, J. P. Gouvea

    Mesh based areal support is commonly applied in South-African deep-level gold mines. It forms part of an integrated support system that can cater for both rockfall and rockburst incidents. The applica

    Apr 26, 2022

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    Application of different objective weighting methods in rockburst - RASIM2022

    By QU Hong-lue, YANG Lin-han

    Aiming at the subjective impact caused by subjective weighting method in the establishment of rockburst risk attribute identification and prediction model, the combined weighting method was introduced

    Apr 26, 2022

  • SME
    Implemented Hazard Mitigation Strategy for DMLZ-DOZ Cave Interaction - RASIM2022

    By Hendri Silaen, Charles Leatemia, Monang Napitupulu, John Kamarea, Arwin Edijanto, Riza Hasan, Avesiena Primadiansyah

    The Deep Mill Level Zone (DMLZ) is the fourth panel cave mine in the East Ertsberg Skarn System, (EESS) which lies 500 m below the producing Deep Ore Zone (DOZ) mine and up to 1,700 m below the surfac

    Apr 26, 2022

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    A new causality and progress theory of coal bump occurred in longwall roadway and corresponding prediction and prevention measures - RASIM2022

    By Dongxu Jia, Chen Cao, Shuangwen Ma, Jun Han, Huibin Ma

    Coal bump, or coal burst, is one of the catastrophic disasters in underground coalmine. Among them, approximate 80% of recorded destructive burst events were occurred in mining roadway. The bump panel

    Apr 26, 2022

  • SME
    The role of pre-conditioning in mitigating seismic hazards – an innovative method for future caving operations.

    By James Lett

    The role of pre-conditioning in a caving operation has multiple benefits, ranging from assisting with improved caveability, normalising fragmentation and improving draw point hang-up frequency. At New

    Apr 26, 2022

  • SME
    Early Experiences of Microseismic Monitoring in Kittilä Mine - RASIM22

    By Stephen Meyer, Véronique Falmagne, Antti Pyy

    Kittilä Mine is a gold mine located in Northern Finland, owned and operated by Agnico Eagle Finland. The mining operation started in 2008 with open pits which were completed in 2012 and production mov

    Apr 26, 2022

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    Stress and Seismic Management: DMLZ’s Key Learnings - RASIM2022

    By Hendri Silaen, Ishak Degei, Nicoll Soumilena, Arwin Edijanto, Avesiena Primadiansyah

    PT Freeport Indonesia’s Deep Mill Level Zone (DMLZ) is one of three operating cave mines at the Grasberg mine complex. The DMLZ is situated in the East Ertsberg Skarn System (EESS). It is set 500 m be

    Apr 26, 2022