What mining methods does IGO use? What makes IGO stand out in terms of mining engineering?
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(I am studying mining engineering.)
Frank S. asked during the live chat IGO Graduate and Vacation Student Live Chat Event to IGO Limited
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Date asked: Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Last reviewed: Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Jonathan M.
Graduate Mining Engineer
I can only speak for nova, but we utilise several UG mining methods. Longhole stoping, multi-level long hole, narrow, short fat stopes, and a modified AVOKA mining Method. When working in D&B at Nova, no 2 stopes are the same, so it is very interesting to design drill and blast patterns around all these different shapes
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Frank S.
Awesome, thanks.
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Alex K.
Graduate - Environment
This is not my field but I know that here at Cosmos the shaft that is currently in construction for transporting ore to the surface is quite innovative
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Kishore Kumar M.
Thats good to know Johnathan
, I am doing a project to extract sill pillars without compromising the stability of the mine
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Kishore Kumar M.
Does IGO extract sill pillars ?
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Jonathan M.
Graduate Mining Engineer
At Nova we design our stopes to not have sill pillars. Because we are a flat ore body we have multiple mining fronts, so we can mine somewhere else and come back once the previous stope is backfilled.
I hope this helps
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Kishore Kumar M.
Yeah sure thing Joana thats sounds interesting as well
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
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