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Due Diligence Review Of A Mineral Sands Project In Victoria, Australia
Yonglian Sun, Bruno Strasser

The client, based in Melbourne, Australia, commissioned SRK to review the mineral sands project following the previously prepared final “Definitive Feasibility Study” and available engineering studies, to then prepare a technical report, and to present our opinion and findings.

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Mechanisation In Indian Underground Coal Mines: Rock Bolting Technology And Strata Monitoring
Atul Gandhe

Mechanised mining, using Continuous Miner (CM) bord and pillar sections, has been successfully introduced into Indian coal mines for more than a decade.

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Block Variance Validation
Yonggang Wu

Generally speaking, grade interpolation can be validated by VMS (visual assessment, mean assessment, swath plot validation) and block variance validation.

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Mapping The Indian Resource Classification System With The CRIRSCO Template
Shameek Chattopadhyay

In early 2015, India introduced a set of new mining rules, using the terminologies defined in the UNFC 1997 guideline and the CRIRSCO Template.

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Feasibility Studies Are Only As Good As The Attention Paid To Data Collection
Subrato Ghosh

SRK has been involved with multiple projects in India that involved feasibility studies.

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Geotechnical Characterisation Of Coarse Mine Waste Using DEM
Sandra Linero, Arcesio Lizcano

The study of the mechanical behaviour of mine wastes containing particles of metric order is a challenging task because commercial testing devices typically only accommodate samples composed of particles that measure a few centimeters.

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A Safety Turn Around
Simon Hanrahan, Stephen McLaughlin

A safety case study is presented involving two major contracts: a 1000 m shaft recovery and rehabilitation, and the development of a drainage gallery in a large open pit operation.

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Discontinuity Survey And Brittle Fracture Characterisation In Open Pit Slopes Using Photogrammetry
Zack Tuckey, Justine Paul, Jeff Price

Remote sensing techniques such as ground-based photogrammetry and LiDAR have become routine supplements to traditional rock mass characterisation approaches, greatly enhancing discontinuity survey capability.

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Managing a Change in Rock Mass Response to Mining at the Frog's Leg Underground Mine
J Mgumbwa, A Page, L Human, MJ Dunn

Evolution Mining's Frog’s Leg underground mine experienced an increase in the number of seismic events and rockburst occurrences during 2015.

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New Chairman for SRK Consulting Australasia
Press Release

The Board of SRK Consulting (Australasia) Pty Ltd is pleased to announce the appointment of Corporate Consultant, Mark Noppé, as its new chairman.

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Panel probes big geological questions
Press Release

PERTH, AUSTRALIA — Mining Journal - 10 April, 2017 - The truth about big data in resource evaluation, and exploration data management? Well, as respected BHP Billiton principal geoscientist Cam McCuaig indicated in a recent forum focussed on future trends in data collection and interpretation, most of us might not be able to handle the truth!

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Staying In The Game – The Importance Of Engineering Based Decisions
Peter Fairfield

As I moved around in my career, I always hoped that the skeletons left behind the door didn't have too much of a negative impact.

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Thickened Tailings Deposition for Closure
Nicholas Thompson, Pepe Moreno

The strategic implementation of a thickened tailings system for an existing conventional TSF can be beneficial in terms of significantly reducing the required post-operational earthworks and the time to achieve final closure.

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