Caving 2010
Elexon presented a paper on the Smart Marker System at Caving 2010, the Australian Centre for Geomechanics Second International Symposium on Block and Sublevel Caving, April 2010, Perth, Western Australia:
- The Smart Marker System – A new tool for measuring underground ore body flow in block and sublevel mines, by D.S. Whiteman, Elexon Electronics.*
The paper presents the results from block and sublevel cave testing of the Smart Marker system at Rio Tinto’s Northparkes E26 block cave mine and at Newcrest’s Telfer sublevel cave mine. The test results demonstrated the successful use of the automated system in the underground production environment and provided high resolution, real-time extraction data suitable for the analysis of underground orebody movement.
The paper also addresses the use of real-time Smart Marker data in the analysis of back-break, oreflow rates, dilution entry and rill detection.
Smart Marker System - Elexon Electronics - Caving 2010 [pdf]
Two other papers referencing Smart Markers are also included in Caving 2010, Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Block and Sublevel Caving:
- Installing Smart Markers to monitor Lift 2 North extension ore flow behaviour, by S. Talu, A.van As, et al, pp 623
- Lift 2 North extension cave performance, by S. Talu, A. van As, et al, pp 407
The proceedings are available from the Australian Centre for Geomechanics (acgsales@acg.uwa.edu.au)
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