Information and links on a variety of technical aspects of mining & mineral exploration.
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This is the most popular of all the TechnoMine sites. We have about 20 technology reviews on this site, ranging in topics from blasting and drilling, to pillars and subsidence. The most recent reviews are Block Caving, Ventilation, and Mine-Induced Seismicity.
Managing Costs - Core Drilling Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Sometimes the smallest products can make the biggest impact. While they don't carry $1 million price tags like some of the high technology capital equipment available on the market, coring consumables represent incremental cost over the life of a project that can save or lose a drilling contractor hundreds of thousands of dollars in ...read more »
Supporting a remote mining fleet Wednesday, September 30, 2009 The importance of the Sandvik operation headquartered in the city of Timika on the south coast of Papua (Irian Jaya),Indonesia, is such that it is an incorporated company, PT Sandvik SMC. This company was established purely for the Freeport business,which roughly splits 50/50 between underground and surface equipment.read more »
Cost breaking Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Fragmentation within the mine is often overlooked as a critical element in the process and can be used to provide essential process control information. SPLIT digital fragmentation technology has been available for some time, with applications from the mine with post-blast analysis at the muck pile face through to the mechanical comminution circuit with ...read more »
Human Error Prevention Friday, August 07, 2009 Preventing human error can be the biggest contributor to the productivity, safety, and quality of any project. A new easy to read book can help you tackle the causes of human error and how to prevent them.read more »
WVU Dedicates Simulated Underground Mine for Training
Managing Costs - Core Drilling
Supporting a remote mining fleet
Cost breaking
Human Error Prevention
