Material Flow in High Column Caves – What Does The Evidence Say?
Speaker: Professor Andre van As
Abstract: To effectively design and manage high-column cave mines, it is imperative to shift from an over-reliance on broad theoretical models to more rigorous, data-driven, drawpoint-by-drawpoint analysis of actual field observations and measurements. The seminar will explore this theme in greater detail.
Bio: Andre van As is an underground mine geotechnical engineer who has spent most of his 30+ year career working on caving operations and caving projects. Andre has worked on, or had significant involvement in, more than 10 major caving operations and projects, sits on several cave mining geotechnical review boards and has published widely on cave mining and caving geomechanics. After 22 years working for Rio Tinto, Andre formed his own consultancy in 2018, focused on providing technical expertise to the Cave Mining industry. He is currently the group lead for the ‘Deep Mining Geoscience’ group which is part of the Sustainable Minerals Institutes' WH Bryan Mining Geology Research Centre (BRC).
About JKMRC Friday Seminars 2025
Welcome to the 2025 Series of the JKMRC Friday Seminars. The list of presentations will aim to cover a range of topics related to the minerals sector from decision making in exploration, new mineral processing technologies, social licence to operate and mine closure.
The JKMRC Friday Seminars will be presented often in person, at the Indooroopilly Mine Site Lecture Theatre, and also as a webinar. Registration for the webinar is required and can be made via the registration link in each seminar overview.
A large number of past webinars can be accessed on the SMI website: https://smi.uq.edu.au/webinars
Previous seminars have been uploaded to YouTube via the following link: https://www.youtube.com/user/smiuq
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Venue
Indooroopilly Mine Site
40 Isles Road
Indooroopilly, Qld