This illustration from Caterpillar shows typical haul road design considerations for a dual-carriage road. What's your mines standard for...

So, you had a consultant do mine planning work on your project - great. The consultant used a variety of specialised software packages to...

Halite is the mineral name for the substance that everyone knows as "salt." Its chemical name is sodium chloride, and a rock composed...

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...

The Hope Downs 4 mine is an iron ore mine located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, 100 kilometres northwest of Newman. The...

Some of us have had the unfortunate experience of being involved in a mining truck catching fire, or any equipment piece for that matter....

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!

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...

This method is really a combination of several different methods of stoping. The figure is an illustration of the method, and shows half...

The bord & pillar mining method consists of driving a series of narrow roads, separated by blocks of solid coal, parallel to one another,...