Dr John Player, Director and Principal Engineer, presented this piece at the RaSiM 11 – Rockbursts and Seismicity in Mines conference at The University of Luleå in Sweden. The paper was authored collaboratively by Colin Thomson, John and Adama BARO. Abstract Due to an increasing seismic hazard at the Z55 underground mine at
Colin Thomson, Senior Geotechnical Engineer, presented this piece at the AusIMM Underground Operators Conference 2025 in Adelaide. Focussing on the collapse and response of an underground infrastructure at Burkina Faso’s Yaramoko Mine, he covered the collaborative and cost-conscious fix that allowed operations to continue, without a full tunnel replacement. A structure under pressure The
Written by our Geologist, Lyndell Juggernaut Geotechnical logging of diamond drill core is used to characterize the rock mass and the structural setting. The collected data is applied in geotechnical studies to design mine excavations (open pit slope angles and underground mine excavation sizes and required ground support schemes). Any feature that will
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The introduction of the Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) feature to RS3 represents a significant advancement in the field of geological modelling. It allows for a highly realistic representation of subsurface geological structures by capturing the complex and heterogeneous nature of discontinuities. Accounting for DFN’s in your 3D modelling is critical to understanding the geological impact of your site’s
