Determining a preferred mining cut on the Multiple Carbon Leader Reef

ISBN-13: 9783659934995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 52 str.

Adil Patel

Opis

The gold distribution within gold bearing reef bands in the Witwatersrand Basin is generally unpredictable in both a lateral and a vertical sense.The effect of taking a full top down mining cut on one such reef or ore body type,the Multiple Carbon Leader Reef (MCLR) proved to be too costly, unsafe and ineffective. Find out what selective mining cut optimization process was used as a way of dealing with the challenge.

O autorze

Adil Patel was born and bread in the mining town of Krugersdorp, Mogale City, Johannesburg, South Africa. Having being brought up on the Central Rand Witwatersrand mining towns, his passion for geology and the earth sciences started at a very early age. Adil advanced his geoscience career whilst being employed on the West Wits gold mines since 2003