The HAULSIM (Surface) Online course provides flexible and convenient training on the core features of RPM’s HAULSIM solution. Participants will learn how to simulate productivity and cost of equipment, through pre-configured workshops designed around real life scenarios. The learning outcomes of the course are: [if !supportLists]· [endif]Navigate around the software [if !supportLists]· [endif]Access the product’s help [if !supportLists]· [endif]Create and update a mine haulage simulation [if !supportLists]· [endif]Import data into the simulation [if !supportLists]· [endif]Understand the equipment library [if !supportLists]· [endif]How to use d

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The TALPAC-3D Online course provides flexible and convenient training on the core features of RPMGlobal's TALPAC-3D solution. Participants will learn how to simulate productivity and cost of equipment, through pre-configured workshops designed around real-life scenarios. The learning outcomes of the course are: [if !supportLists]· [endif]Navigate around the software [if !supportLists]· [endif]Access the product’s help [if !supportLists]· [endif]Create and update a mine haulage simulation [if !supportLists]· [endif]Import data into the simulation [if !supportLists]· [endif]Understand the equipment library [if !s

Side stoping is an extreme of combination stoping in which the working face of the stope is vertical. The face is parallel to the raises just as the face in flat-back stoping is parallel to the levels. Breast stoping refers to the working of a flat orebody, or a flat section of an orebody, just as coal is mined from a flat coal seam. That is, a slice is worked in a horizontal direction. The assumption is that there is no open stope either above or below the slice, or else the method becomes either underhand or overhand stoping. In some cases, the benches in underhand or overhand stoping are called breasts, and the method breast stoping, but I believe that is not the usually accepted definiti

As the use of technology continues to expand throughout business and emerging technology solutions become mainstream, many mines don’t have the skills and capabilities they need to achieve successful digital transformation projects. Therefore, they need to look outside the organisation to leverage the power of collaboration. Collaboration refers to assembling a team of strategic partners with the right skills, capabilities, and attitude to provide a real and meaningful change in managing complex technical projects - CEO Magazine. With Kenn Smart's intimate knowledge of Surface Mining Earthmoving Equipment Application, combined with my advanced experience in Haulage Simulation Technology, o

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Grasberg mine in the Papua province of Indonesia ranked as the world’s tenth largest copper mine by reserve. The mine’s open pit and underground copper reserves as of December 2012 were estimated at 10.47Mt. The mine produced 315,246t of copper in 2012. Grasberg was also the biggest gold mine in the world by reserve. The Grasberg mineral deposit was discovered in 1988. Open-pit mining operation started in 1990. PTFI holds a 90.64% interest in the Grasberg mining operation. The Government of Indonesia holds the rest, representing a 9.36% stake. Freeport Indonesia (PTFI), a subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), operates the mine. Rio Tinto sold it's 40% stake in July 2018 – “MiningTechnology.c

With the world slowly but surely recovering from the pandemic, fuel prices are set to increase significantly for the foreseeable future. As fuel is 50% of your mine’s fleet OPEX, it is a huge expense that should be managed and controlled by all means necessary. With the launch of our fuel-efficiency initiative, we aim to help and guide our clients to bank a substantial saving on their fuel bill. This saving can in turn be redeployed in other facets of the business in dire need of funding. This is not your regular once-off audit, but rather a 6-month partnership to ensure continuous focus and progress to reach the ultimate goal – optimal fuel usage. For additional info, kindly send us an emai

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Regarded as the fifth largest hydraulic excavator, the Komatsu PC8000-6 has an operating weight of around 710 tonnes. It comes with both shovel and backhoe attachments. This beast has a track length of 7.955 meters and an overall track width of 9 meters, its bucket size is 38 cubic meters. Arm crowd force and bucket crowd forces are 1,765 kN and 1,961 kN. Its maximum ground level reach of the bucket is 19.37 meters. This machine is powered by two 16-cylinder Komatsu SDA16B 160 diesel engines pumping out 4,020 hp at 1,800 rpm - "Interestingengineering.com"

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This method is really a combination of several different methods of stoping. The figure is an illustration of the method, and shows half of the vein cut away where the stoping is being done. The miners go from the haulage level up the raise into the sublevels. On the first sublevel they will blast into the shape of funnels the raises that come up from the haulage level, and after working back, the slice, s, by breast stoping will drill holes at a and shoot part of this bench down into the raises. On the second sublevel the miners work back the slice, s, and then with down holes at b will blast the remainder of the first bench down into the raises, and with uppers at c shoot off part of the s

The world pandemic has caused almost every mine on earth to run a multitude of mining schedules in a very short time period, in an effort to strategise for the foreseeable future... More than ever, the time is now to ensure your scheduling & simulation models are optimally and correctly set up, and that the numbers make sense... With the model audit/refinement service I check & scrutinise each and every step of your model and adjust or refine the steps as needed to set up an efficient, optimised and updated model. The audited/refined model is then transferred back to you, and the adjustments/refinements/improvements are explained in a comprehensive report. This service is for customers using

I found this handy tool from Edumine that you can use to determine the inter-ramp angle for a specified bench geometry and the approximate change (%) in excavation volume due to a change in inter-ramp angle. Kindly click on the link below to use the tool: "http://www.edumine.com/xtoolkit/xmlicon/bench_geometry.htm"

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Sodalite is a rare rock-forming mineral best known for its blue to blue-violet colour. It has a chemical composition of Na4Al3Si3O12Cl and is a member of the feldspathoid mineral group. High-quality sodalite is used as a gemstone, a sculptural material, and an architectural stone. Sodalite occurs in igneous rocks that crystallized from sodium-rich magmas. This is the origin of the name "sodalite." These magmas also contained so little silicon and aluminium that quartz and feldspar minerals are often absent. Sodalite-bearing rocks include: nepheline syenite, trachyte, and phonolite. These types of rocks are so rare that most geologists never see them in the field. Well-known sources of sodali

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Penasquito, located in the north-eastern part of the state of Zacatecas, Mexico, is the world’s biggest silver mine by reserve. The proven and probable silver reserves of the mine as of December 2012 stood at 911.8 million ounces (Moz). Silver contained in the mill ore was estimated at 869.52Moz, whereas the heap leach ore reserves were estimated to contain 42.28Moz of silver. The poly-metallic mine containing gold, silver, lead and zinc is owned and operated by Goldcorp. The mine started commercial production in 2010. It consists of two open pits, namely Peñasco and Chile Colorado, which together constitute the largest open-pit mine operation in Mexico. The ore processing capacity of the mi

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The Liebherr R 996 B is the world's sixth biggest hydraulic excavator. This machine's operating weight, with shovel attachment, is 676 tonnes, 672 tonnes if you add the backhoe attachment. Undercarriage length is 10 meters and 7.9 meters wide. Shovel and backhoe capacities for this monster totals 26 cubic meters. It has digging and breakout forces of 1,550 kN and 1,670 kN for the backhoe and crowding/breakout forces of 2,430 kN and 1,905 kN for the shovel. The whole rig is powered by two 16-cylinder Cummins K 1800 E diesel engines spewing out 3,000 hp at 1,800 rpm - "Interestingengineering.com".