Projects

Recent Major Projects

INSTRUMENTATION

  • Installation and maintenance of a mine-wide stope closure monitoring system
  • "Design, supply and installation of a remote, real-time backfill monitoring system"
  • "Design, supply and installation of a comprehensive monitoring system of shaft deformation"
  • Monitoring of hangingwall stability in various mines applying a room and pillar mining method
  • Application of Acoustic techniques to assist mines in combatting rock falls
  • Instrumenting and monitoring of deformation around a tunnel sited at depth in weak rock
  • Monitoring of deformation around large life-of-mine chambers sited at depth
  • Application of borehole camera to assist in detecting possible weak planes above excavations

MINE SUPPORT

  • Comprehensive timber/cement based support - laboratory testing services
  • Mine support market surveys
  • Mine support quality assurance system design and implementation
  • Underground mine support auditing
  • In situ and laboratory evaluation of timber support performance

ROCK ENGINEERING

  • Continuous rock engineering assistance to various mines
  • Design mining strategies for remnant pillar extractions at depth
  • Design mining strategies for extraction of UGII reef approximately 20 m below a Merensky stope in which pillars were left
  • Risk assessment to rank various mining areas relative to each other
  • Risk assessment to evaluate positioning of main access ways to underground workings
  • Geotechnical mapping and numerical modelling to identify possible mechanisms responsible for adverse ground conditions around a large chamber
  • Auditing of compliance to mine rock engineering standards
  • On site training of underground mine personnel

 

Client Listing

Agnes Mine
Amandelbult
Anglo Gold
Anglo Platinum
Bafokeng Rasimone
Beatrix
Bleskop
Brakspruit
Cementation
Drie Cons
Eskom
Frank 2
Gold Fields
Great Noligwa
Hackney
Impala
Itasca
Karee Mine
Klipwal
Kloof
Kopanang
Kroondal
Maroelabult
Matjhabeng
Miningtek
Modikwa
Mponeng
Nchwaning
New Denmark
Northam Plats
Paardekraal
PDWAJV
Potgieterus
Resolve
RMT SA
RMT UK
Savuka
SMT Mining
Snowden's
Tau Tona
Townlands
Tshepong
Turffontein
Union
Waterval

 

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