Conference Proceedings
Seventh International Conference & Exhibition on Mass Mining (MassMin 2016)
Conference Proceedings
Seventh International Conference & Exhibition on Mass Mining (MassMin 2016)
Practical Stope Reconciliation in Large-scale Operations Part 2, Olympic Dam, South Australia
At the previous MassMin conference held in Sudbury in 2012, the authors proposed a new framework going beyond dilution and equivalent linear overbreak sloughing (ELOS) for stope reconciliation in relation to the planned stope design. More specifically, the new process investigates performance outcomes including rock overbreak (OB) and fill overbreak (FOB), rock underbreak (UB) as well as geomechanical and operational aspects such as blasting, fragmentation and other production data.Based on the findings of the original 2012 study, a comprehensive data gathering program has been undertaken involving design and reconciliation data from 43 stopes mined between September 2012 and October 2014 at BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam (OD) operation. The new database structure was based on four types of data:stope definition and performance datastope geometrygeotechnical parametersoperational parameters.The new database allows a more in-depth investigation of stope performance. It is now possible to quantify and analyse UB and OB performance from each wall individually as well as the crown. In this paper, the influence of several parameters on recent stope performance at OD is analysed. The underlying reasons for stope wall performance outcomes are discussed in this paper.CITATION:Potvin, Y, Grant, D, Mungur, G, Wesseloo, J and Kim, Y, 2016. Practical stope reconciliation in large-scale operations part 2, Olympic Dam, South Australia, in Proceedings Seventh International Conference and Exhibition on Mass Mining (MassMin 2016), pp 501-510 (The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne).
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Y Potvin, D Grant, G Mungur, J Wesseloo, Y Kim
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