DEEPMINE: Heat & Rock Stress

    New technologies and processes to understand and reduce risk for high rock stress, heat management of high temperature environments and mechanized underground excavation. Projects to reduce mine development time and ramp up production to help to alleviate the sensitivity to risk for mining investors

    Take a look at some of our work

    Projects

    CEMI’s 10 Year Celebration and Industry Panel at PDAC
    Lecture Series: Dr. Steven Bluhm presents: The State of the Art of Ventilating and Refrigerating Deep Hot Mines Around the World
    ISRM Lecture Series: Dr. Peter K. Kaiser presents: Challenges in rock mass strength determination for the design of underground excavations
    Lecture Series: Dr. Florian Amann presents: “The role of brittle failure in sedimentary rocks in Swiss tunnel projects”
    Geoscience Integrator: Management of 4D Multi-disciplinary Mining
    Lecture Series: Dr. Pinnaduwa H.S.W. Kulatilake presents: Required Data and Computational Techniques to Investigate Deformation and Stability around Underground Mine Excavations in Three Dimensions
    Lecture Series: John McGaughey presents: Ancient Pillars of Active Seismic Wisdom
    A New Understanding of Fault Slip Potential in Underground Mines
    Burstsupport Tool – Phase II
    Using Hydraulic Fracturing to Help Shed Stresses in Deep Underground Mines
    Geomechanical Aspects of Shale Gas Development
    A Guide to Rockburst Support Selection
    Lecture Series: Dr. Marcos Arroyo presents: DEM Models of Boundary Value Problems in Geotechnical Engineering
    Strainburst Potential Identification and Mitigation
    SAMSSA Lecture: Vern Baker, President, Duluth Metals Ltd. presents: “The Potential for Mining Copper, Nickel, and Precious Metals in Minnesota”
    Lecture Series: Dr. Ignacio Carol presents: Confined Fractures of Quasi-Brittle Materials: Numerical Modeling via Interface Elements, and Experimental Validation
    Short Course: Reliability Methods in the Design of Underground Structures
    Guidelines: Structural Geology Guidelines for Aiding Characterization of Deep Mining Fault Behaviour
    Burstsupport Tool – Phase I
    Updating MOFRAC: Discrete Fracture Network Modeling Software
    Workshop on Rockmass Behaviour at Depth; Strength and Bulking for Undercut, Pillar and Support Design
    Primer: Structural Geology Guidelines for use in burst-prone underground mines
    Short Course: Structural Geology Guidelines for use in Burst-prone Underground Mines
    Rio Tinto Centre for Underground Mine Contruction (RTC-UMC)
    Lecture Series: Dr. Steve Rogers presents: “Applications of Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) modeling to Mining Geomechanics”
    Lecture Series: Dr. Willem De Beer presents: “Geophysics for Rockmass Characterization”
    Lecture Series: R. Mohan Srivastava presents: “Fracture modeling: New ideas for mineral deposit development and production planning”
    Lecture Series: Dr. Erik Eberhardt presents: “Impacts of Underground Mass Mining on Surface: Lessons Learned from the Palabora Cave-Pit Interaction Study”
    S-GMAT Ground Motion Assessment Tool
    Fibre Optics-based Distributed Strain Monitoring in Mines
    Fragmentation Analysis for Material Conveyance by Rail-Veyor
    Geohazmap Workflow: Data Fusion and Analyses to Identify Risk
    Phase2stat: Handling Uncertainty and Variability in Finite Element Computation
    Enhancing a Smelter Off-Gas System Using a Plant-Wide Control Design
    Mitigation of energy intensity of an industrial off-gas cleaning system using process engineering solutions
    Strategic Research Program to Develop Tactical Means for Risk Mitigation in Mining
    CEMI Publications Series PS09-01 – Rock Mechanics

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