Found 14 results for 'beck arndt engineering'.
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CONSULTING
Beck builds team for new mining age
February 23 - March 1, 2010
BECK Arndt Engineering, a specialist in high-end rock mechanics simulation, has maintained its recent growth momentum, appointing former OZ Minerals senior mining engineer Dr Charles Lilley as general manager of its new Melbourne office.
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MINING IT
Bend it like Beck
September 21 - 27, 2009
FORMER Mount Isa mining engineer David Beck advises mining companies around the world on mine design and scheduling in high stress, high displacement or seismically active conditions. The principal of Beck Arndt Engineering addressed Mine Planning 2009 in Western Australia last week, and later spoke to HighGrade.
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MINING IT
Mine simulation breakthrough could open floodgates
December 21 - 27, 2009
DECEMBER 9: DAVID Beck and his team at Beck Arndt Engineering will continue to work on better integrating their new hydromechanical (HM) simulation capability with available mine planning tools in a bid to get the new advanced mine slope stability and water pressure modelling product as widely deployed as possible.
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TECHNOLOGY
Five technologies that will rock the mining world: exclusive HighGrade survey
July 28 - August 3, 2010
CENTRALISATION, visualisation, simulation, optimisation, automation and communication are all words linked to technologies that industry leaders around the world believe can radically change mining in the decade ahead. Corporate “motivation”, they say, has been lacking in the past. That’s why two words have fundamentally changed that perspective now.
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TECHNOLOGY
The communication revolution
July 28 - August 3, 2010
THE bedrock of mining’s technology age is certain to be robust communication networks, with new mine proponents and their technical advisors now looking for maximum leverage from an elevated technological base.
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TECHNOLOGY
Here today, gone tomorrow?
July 28 - August 3, 2010
THE mining industry is seen to have a lot of catching up to do to reap the full benefits from existing technologies before it goes on some new crusade looking for the holy grail of fully robotic mining. But many believe it still must find a way to look beyond current machines and processes into a future where they may well be redundant.
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UNDERGROUND
Model citizens
April 28 - May 4, 2010
APRIL 27: IF BLOCK cavers are part of a secret society, the numerical modellers they’re becoming increasingly reliant on to help predict their future must form some sort of trendy cult. Or maybe it’s already cults.
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UNDERGROUND
Better conditioning depends on major experiments
May 5 - 11, 2010
PRECONDITIONING of large rock masses targeted for block caving is seen by the international mining community as vital to the viability of future massive underground mines. But if there was one clear message from the recent international caving symposium in Perth, Western Australia, it was that understanding of the method and its outcomes is very much in its infancy. A series of “large-scale scientific experiments” is in progress.
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CONSULTING
SRK wins first HighGrade popularity contest
March 31 - April 6, 2010
MARCH 26: A NEW survey of Australasian-based exploration, mining and contract mining companies to gauge views on the technical leadership of mining consultancies has produced a surprising runner-up in the ‘best overall’ consultancy category, won by sector heavyweight SRK.
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CONSULTING
Mining consulting leaders 2010
February 9 - 15, 2010
LEADING specialised mining and geological consulting firms operating in the Australasian market are a mix of older, established global heavyweights in the consulting arena, and some fast-growing newcomers. Consolidation activity, which has produced some significant deals in the past decade, could be about to take a new turn.
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UNDERGROUND
So last century
December 21 - 27, 2009
DECEMBER 14: ONE OF the keynote speakers at a worldwide gathering of caving experts planned for April next year is trying to engage the industry’s biggest companies in collaborative thinking about a “new paradigm” for large-scale underground mining. He says there is already acceptance that we “can’t cut and paste current methods” into future mine planning scenarios.
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MINING IT
Seeing is believing
September 21 - 27, 2009
MINE Planning 2009, Dunsborough, Western Australia (no, it is not a new mining hub!). The mining software conference had polylines, semi-transparent fill and DGN files galore. But it also hit on mining’s really big IT themes of the new millennium: visualisation, integration and optimisation.
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CONSULTING
Going to extremes
October 8 - 14, 2007
ONE OF the engineering experts regularly called on by the major miners to help solve “extreme mining” challenges has agreed to become part of the Coffey Mining fold, with the expanding Australian consulting group viewing the engagement as a coup.
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TECHNOLOGY
Test of strength could improve safety
January 14 - 20, 2008
A FATALITY at a South African mine 13 years ago, where “shotcrete pioneer” Wouter Hartman was working, had a profound effect on the rock engineer. Found to be caused by a combination of shear and tensile failure on a relatively thin layer of shotcrete, the incident influenced Hartman’s ambition to improve knowledge and reduce risks of mine re-entry after application of the concrete barrier.