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19 - 22 September 2011

Tunnel and Raise Boring

Andy Griffiths
• DHT - Wits Presentation (PDF - 13.8MB)
• Wits contractual risk and TBM performance models in practice (PDF - 1.1KB)

Dick Stacey
• Rock mass classification for boring (PDF - 15MB)

Jim Porter
• Mechanised mine development utilising rock cutting and boring through raise and blind boring techniques (PDF - 4MB)
• Mining applications and design (PDF - 853KB)
• Tunnel and Raise Boring in Mining (PDF - 1.3MB)

Koos Jordaan
• Drilling tools made to the highest quality standards (PDF - 2.2MB)
• Los Bronces article (PDF - 538KB)
• TBM in mining (PDF - 1.3MB)
• Incline boring brockway (PDF - 1.1MB)
• Sino Hydro 14 shaft reamer (PDF - 733KB)
• Reef development on a platinum mine (PDF - 375KB)
• Mine access and ventilation shaft infrastructure (PDF - 5MB)

Marius Oosthuizen
• Murry & Roberts Cementation (PDF - 5.3MB)

Mark Holton
• Mining Value Chain Systems Analysis (PDF - 1.2MB)

Oliver Keys
• Maintenance and logistics (PDF - 1.3MB)

Pal Jakobsen
• TBM Tunnelling (PDF - 3.2MB)
• Basic mechanics of rock cutting technologies (PDF - 2.3MB)
• Prediction of TBM performance, cost and wear (PDF - 2.6MB)
• Hard rock tunnel boring - Background and Discussion (PDF - 333KB)
• Hard rock tunnel boring - 2 of 10 (PDF - 1MB)
• Hard rock tunnel boring - 3 of 10 (PDF - 290KB)
• Hard rock tunnel boring - 4 of 10 (PDF - 290KB)
• Hard rock tunnel boring - 5 of 10 (PDF - 13MB)
• Hard rock tunnel boring - 6 of 10 (PDF - 578KB)
• Hard rock tunnel boring - 7 of 10 (PDF - 1.1MB)
• Hard rock tunnel boring - 8 of 10 (PDF - 161KB)
• Hard rock tunnel boring - 9 of 10 (PDF - 493KB)
• Hard rock tunnel boring - 10 of 10 (PDF - 1MB)

Rod Charlton
• Safety in mines research advisory committee (PDF - 2MB)
• Strengths coaching with leaders (PDF - 96KB)

Steven Bluhm
• Ventilation and cooling requirements for boring operations (PDF - 2.4MB)

Tony Boniface
• Risk Management of Tunnel Works (PDF - 5.2MB)
• A Case Study in Hard Rock Boring (PDF - 8.1MB)
• Analyses of tunnelling risks: state-of-the-art and examples (PDF - 91KB)
• Risk Assessment, Methodology, Vulnerability, Impact and Importance (PDF - 1MB)

20 - 24 June 2011

Industrial Engineering for Mining

Presented by Teresa Hattingh and Oliver Keys

• Lecture 1: Seeing the Bigger Picture (PDF - 9.5MB)
• Lecture 2: Lean Philosophy (PDF - 533KB)
• Lecture 3: Pre-reading Discussion (PDF - 188KB)
• Lecture 4: Improvement - Doing things better (PDF - 1.5MB)
• Lecture 5: Process Mapping (PDF - 678KB)
• Lecture 6: Root Cause Analysis (PDF - 12MB)
• Lecture 7: Supply Chains (PDF - 453MB)
• Lecture 8: Standards and visual management (PDF - 3.4MB)
• Lecture 9: Human Factors in Mining (PDF - 3.3MB)
• Lecture 10: Total Productive Maintenance (PDF - 1.2MB)
• Lecture 11: Theories of Motivation (PDF - 1.7MB)
• Lecture 12: Systems Engineering (PDF - 4.3MB)
• Lecture 13: Mining Value Chain Systems Analysis (PDF - 2.6MB)
• Reading Material: Alexander Proudfoot - Are you engaged (PDF - 1.3MB)
• Reading Material: Ballé et al - The Thinking Production System (PDF - 1MB)
• Reading Material: Dunstan - The Application of Lean Manufacturing in a Mining Environment (PDF - 2.7MB)
• Reading Material: PIP Speak Value Driver Tree (PDF - 672KB)
• Reading Material: Seddon - Freedom from Command and Control (PDF - 644KB)
• Reading Material: Vingling et al - Lean Manufacturing Principles and their Applicability to the Mining Industry (PDF - 327KB)

23 - 27 May 2011

Trackless Underground Mechanised Mining

Christo Kuhl
• Board and Pillar (PDF - 736KB)

Donovan Munro
• African Assoc Mines Shabanie & Gaths mines (PDF - 2.6MB)
• Cassier Support (PDF - 2.3MB)
• Cassier Paper (PDF - 789KB)
• DL Cavebase manual (PDF - 815KB)
• False Footwall at Gaths Mine (PDF - 4.9MB)
• Gaths Mine (PDF - 4.4MB)
• Geomechanics classification system - Laubscher (PDF - 1.2MB)

Dr Mike Roberts
• Loss of mines - Second Underground trackless lecture (PDF - 1.7MB)
• Underground trackless mechanised mining lecture (PDF - 4.6MB)

Jon Hudson
• Experience of Mechanisation Innovations at Lonminv3 (PDF - 1.7MB)

Marco Biffi
• Stope Mechanization and Ventilation Systems (PDF - 2.7MB)

Mark Holton
• Mining Vlaue Chain (PDF - 900KB)

Oliver Keys
• Operator Fatigue (PDF - 1.4MB)
• Rock Factory (PDF - 1.4MB)

Prof Alex du Plessis
• Implementation of new technology and management of technology trials (PDF - 139KB)
• Logistics energy and power (PDF - 275KB)

Prof Jim Porter
• HR UG MECH - design option criteria (PDF - 1.2MB)
• HR UG MECH Intro and Object (PDF - 2MB)

Prof John Sheer
• Systems Engineering Lecture May 2011 (PDF - 1.1MB)
• Systems Engineering Lecture May 2011 - Updated (PDF - 1.1MB)

Prof Zvi Borowitsh
• Automated Undergroung Article (PDF - 295KB)
• Field guide to mining machine application (PDF - 208KB)
• Finsch automated underground (PDF - 279KB)
• L11 - Excavation Methods (PDF - 2.8MB)
• Longwall mining handbook (PDF - 407KB)
• Caterpillar Performance Handbook (PDF - 12.5MB)
• Room and Pillar (PDF - 1.4MB)

Rod Pickering
• Non Explosive Mining and Practical Applications Wits May 2011 (PDF - 3.3MB)
• Trackless Mechanized Mining School Room & Pillar Best Practice (PDF - 4.2MB)

Ruud van Nieuwenhoven
• Advances in Underground Communication and Control (PDF - 4.5MB)
• Communication and Tracking Miner Act Compliant 26 April 2011 (PDF - 34KB)

Teresa Hattingh
• The people issues (PDF - 764KB)

16 - 18 February 2011

Rock Engineering in Hard Rock Room & Pillar Mining

A Best Practice Industry workshop was held from 16 - 18 February 2011. Workshop delegates are invited to download the presentations and may contact the Centre for the password.

• Best Practice Industry Workshop on Rock Engineering in Hard-Rock Room & Pillar Mining (PDF - 762KB)
• Best Practice in Hard Rock Room and Pillar Mining (PDF - 2.36MB)
• Room & Pillar Mining Workshop (PDF - 3.37MB)
• Hard-Rock Room & Pillar Mining (PDF - 10.8MB)
• Rock Engineering in Hard Rock Room & Pillar Mining (PDF - 136KMB)
• Blasting & Blast Damage (PDF - 510KB)
• Long Hole Drilling Applied to Narrow Reef Mining (PDF - 2.21MB)
• Mechanised mining at Hossy shaft (PDF - 686KB)
• Best Practice Industry Workshop on Rock Engineering in Hard-Rock Room & Pillar Mining (PDF - 549KB)
• Bord and Pillar Mining (PDF - 3.33MB)
• Two Rivers Platinum Bord and Pillar Practices (PDF - 4.66MB)
• Zimplats bord-and-pillar mining (PDF - 2.39MB)

November 2010

Conveying, Storage and Handling of Bulk Solids

Presented by Dr Craig Wheeler, Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, University of Newcastle, Australia; and Prof Bill McBride, Head of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Newcastle, Australia.

• Lecture 1: Introduction and Course Outline (PDF - 890KB)
• Lecture 2: Overview of Belt Conveying Systems (PDF - 2MB)
• Lecture 3: Overview of Static Design Procedure (PDF - 2.5MB)
• Lecture 4: Belt Transitions and Vertical Curves (PDF - 1.15MB)
• Lecture 5: Static Analysis Example (PDF - 790KB)
• Lecture 6: Understanding the Dynamics of Starting and Stopping Long Belt Conveyors by Graham Spriggs (PDF - 4.6MB)
• Lecture 7: Overview of Main Resistances (PDF - 3.34MB)
• Lecture 8: Dynamic Belt Tensions (PDF - 283KB)
• Lecture 9: Characterising Bulk Solids (PDF - 1MB)
• Lecture 10: Basic Concepts for Storage and Handling of Cohesive Bulk Materials (PDF - 1.11MB)
• Lecture 11: Flowrates Feeder design & Wall Pressures (PDF - 571KB)
• Lecture 11 continued: Flowrates Feeder design & Wall Pressures (PDF - 2.25MB)
• Lecture 12: ELEVATORS - Bucket and OLDS (PDF - 2MB)
• Lecture 13: Transfer Chute Design (PDF - 1.2MB)
• Lecture 14: DEM Applied to Transfer Chute Design (PDF - 898KB)
• Lecture 15: CFD Analysis of Conveyor Transfer Chutes and DEM Analysis of a Scale Model Bucket Wheel Reclaimer (PDF - 421KB)
• Notes: Review of belt conveyor design procedures by Alan W. Roberts (PDF - 758KB)
• Notes: Chute design example by Alan W. Roberts (PDF - 1.2MB)
• Notes: Bin wall loads (PDF - 3MB)

14 - 16 April 2010

Room & Pillar Mining Workshop

A Best Practice Industy workshop was held from 14 - 16 April 2010 and the presentations from those mines that participated in the workshop, and the review thereof, contain a wealth of information.

Workshop delegates are invited to download the review and presentations and may contact the Centre for the password.

Review of the Room & Pillar Mining Workshop (PDF - 584KB)

• Introduction by Alex du Plessis (PDF - 245KB)
• History of Room & Pillar Mining by Rod Pickering (PDF - 170KB)
• Two Rivers Platinum by Mike Cowell (PDF - 1.3MB)
• Unki Mine by Sam Jena, Anglo Platinum (PDF - 568KB)
• Bathopele Mine by Carlo van Rensburg, Anglo Platinum (PDF - 1.18MB)
• Eland Platinum Mine by Rodney o’Reilly, Xstrata (PDF - 2.9MB)
• Dwarsrivier Mine by Walter Molapisi (PDF - 953KB)
• Mototolo Platinum Mine by Johan van Tonder (PDF - 1.94MB)
• Zimplats by Gift Zhoue (PDF - 447KB)
• Kroondal & Marikana Operations by Lawrence Schultz, Murray and Roberts (PDF - 1.38MB)
• Nkomati Nickel Mine by Lazarus Motshwaiwa (PDF - 3.55MB)
• Everest Platinum Mine by Gus Simbanegavi, Aquarius Platinum (PDF - 796KB)
• Eastern Chrome Mines by Caide Barlow, Xstrata (PDF - 1.29MB)
• Future of Room & Pillar Mining by Rod Pickering (PDF - 1.95MB)