MONITORING WEAK ROCKMASS OVERVIEW The Gosowong Gold Operation is located on Halmahera Island, about 2,450 kilometres northeast of the national capital, Jakarta. It is an epithermal gold deposit with additional occurrences of silver. The mine uses a combination of cut-and-fill and long hole open stoping (LHOS) mining methods. Currently, PT. Nusa Halmahera Minerals operates two […]
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SLOPE STABILITY RADAR (SSR™) – BENEFITS OF EARLY WARNING DATA – GOLD QUARRY OPEN PIT, NEWMONT MINING CORPORATION, CARLIN (NV), USA In July 2009, Newmont’s Carlin Surface Operation deployed a GroundProbe SSR-X system at its Gold Quarry open pit to monitor on-going slope instability while remediation mining activities were underway. Newmont had previous experience at […]
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