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Publications tagged with [sinking]
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Over several decades in Southern Africa the advance rates when sinking vertical shafts have declined significantly. The upside has been a substantial improvement in shaft bottom conditions and a commensurately improved safety performance, with an increasing ...
Filed under:
Tunnel Engineering -
Shafts
Reference:
The Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Shaft Sinking and Mining Contractors Conference 2009
This paper is based on the Townlands Ore Replacement Project whereby the concept of conventional sinking of one large diameter shaft was declined and replaced with three smaller raise bored shafts. A wire line geophysical survey was done and the results indicated ...
Filed under:
Mining Engineering -
Underground Mining
Reference:
The Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Shaft Sinking and Mining Contractors Conference 2009
Change control and front end loading are based on project processes in the planning and monitoring & control process group of the Project Management Body of Knowledge1 (PMBOK). This paper will focus on key factors to consider during project scheduling/planning ...
Filed under:
Management & Scheduling -
Scheduling
Reference:
Blom B.
,
Malherbe J.
et al.
The objective of this paper is to describe the support methodology that was used during the ventilation shaft sinking and the use of the machine carousel to reduce the cladding support cycle. The machine carousel replaces the traditional use of machine kibble ...
Filed under:
Tunnel Engineering -
Shafts
Reference:
The Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Shaft Sinking and Mining Contractors Conference 2009
