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BOOK NOW FOR SEPTEMBER!!
Take control of your career and get empowered by these mine planning courses. Companies want their employees to do the job using...
MINE PLANNING BASICS FRIDAY - HAUL ROAD DESIGN!!
This illustration from Caterpillar shows typical haul road design considerations for a dual-carriage road. What's your mines standard for...
MINING TECH – BRIDGING THE G-APP!!
So, you had a consultant do mine planning work on your project - great. The consultant used a variety of specialised software packages to...
MINING ROCKSTAR OF THE WEEK – HALITE!!
Halite is the mineral name for the substance that everyone knows as "salt." Its chemical name is sodium chloride, and a rock composed...
ONLINE MINING COURSE FOR SCHOLARS, NON-GRADUATES OR NON-DIPLOMATS!!
Don't have a university degree or diploma, but want to further your career in mining and hit that next promotion...? Don't have the means...
SHOWCASE IRON ORE MINE OF THE WEEK – HOPE DOWNS!!
The Hope Downs 4 mine is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, 100 kilometres northwest of Newman. The...
FIRE - PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE!!
Some of us have had the unfortunate experience of being involved in a mining truck catching fire, or any equipment piece for that matter....
BLAST FROM THE PAST TUESDAY - DRILL & BLAST MINING!!
Awesome blasts posted by Jason Gaugg on Youtube. Have a special look at the timing of the blasts and comment if you'd like - enjoy!
BLASTING INTO THE FUTURE!!
For those of you who weren't able to install Deon's blasting programme on your computer, have a look at his YouTube video. It illustrates...
MINING METHOD OF THE WEEK - SUBLEVEL STOPING!!
This method is really a combination of several different methods of stoping. The figure is an illustration of the method, and shows half...
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