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

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