Author:Stewart, R; Donovan, SJ; Haarhoff, J; Brink, V; Vogt, DDate:Nov 2008Labour-intensive drill-and-blast mining, as conducted on the major South African gold and platinum mines, is often not tightly managed due to the lack of good information about what is going on underground. As a result, mining operations tend ...Read more
Author:Stewart, R; Donovan, SJ; Haarhoff, J; Vogt, DRDate:Aug 2008AziSA is an architecture for measurement and control networks that can be used to collect, store and facilitate the analysis of data from challenging underground environments. AziSA defines four node classes, two (Classes Four and Three) for ...Read more
Author:Vogt, D; Brink, AVZ; Stewart, R; Donovan, SJ; Haarhoff, JDate:Oct 2008South African underground hard rock mines are typically managed using measurements made daily, weekly or even monthly of key parameters face advance, readiness to blast, blast success, temperature or dust levels. Health, safety and productivity ...Read more