The second installment of this series of group courses kicked-off with a bang with my wife attending the courses. She has no mining...

Some open-pit strip mining to enjoy with your coffee... #coffee #planning #mining

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the BP oil disaster, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the Macondo...

Chuquicamata copper mine, situated 1,650km north of Santiago, Chile, is the second deepest open-pit mine in the world. Chuquicamata, also...

This is part of the presentation to the 3rd year students of the university of Pretoria. The aim of the questions are to get the students...

Did they use hieroglyphics to map out their week plan? Did they carve out a boulder for their 3D block models? Did they use small rocks...

I tend to get confused when it comes to expressing ramp gradients in a ratio format vs percentage format. Below is a quick and easy...

THABAZIMBI experiences slope failure In the early hours of Saturday morning on 6 June 2015, the high wall failed, magnitude went further...

Tutorial 1 kicked off with a bang for the 3rd year mining students at the university of Pretoria. The students work in groups, and they...

So you have had the basic training, but still lost when it comes to the actual task at hand... Real-life vastly different from the usual...