In our previous post​​​​​​​, we explained the reasons why cave mining methods are gaining traction. Discover in this post the role of technology in making it accessible to more miners and download the full article.

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By @DV ​​​​​​​

What new technologies will help to make caving more accessible to more miners?

There are a number of solutions developed for caving to design, model, evaluate block caving, and sub-level caving projects, including: 

• Location and footprint of the caving mine: Analytics and simulations can help determine caving method and extraction points can be designed carefully to cause excessive stress and damage.
• Reduced risk through simulations in the virtual world: Given that cave mining has a large upfront capital expenditure, various ‘what-if’ scenarios can be run in order to test sensitivity of input parameters and reduce risk.
• Mine sequence optimisation: Simulation and visualisation technology can help assess multi-level scenarios for the prediction of propagation of the cave back of the caving mine. In addition, detailed production schedules can be generated based on targeted production rate, draw point opening strategy and sequence.
• Analytics tools for correlations: Geotechnical constraints within caving simulations can be incorporated directly in the mine plaining process. This can allow for correlations between key parameters within the model to be easily determined.

For more information about Strategic Mine Planning for Caving, watch a recording of Dassault Systèmes’ webinar.

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You may also be interested in the best practices already released:

block caving ​​​​​​​