What mining methods does IGO use? What makes IGO stand out in terms of mining engineering?

(I am studying mining engineering.)

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  • Jonathan M.
    Jonathan M. Graduate Mining Engineer

    I can only speak for nova, but we utilise several UG mining methods. Longhole stoping, multi-level long hole, narrow, short fat stopes, and a modified AVOKA mining Method. When working in D&B at Nova, no 2 stopes are the same, so it is very interesting to design drill and blast patterns around all these different shapes

  • FS
    Frank S. Candidate

    Awesome, thanks.

  • Anonymous

    This is not my field but I know that here at Cosmos the shaft that is currently in construction for transporting ore to the surface is quite innovative

  • KM
    Kishore U. Candidate

    Thats good to know Johnathan
    , I am doing a project to extract sill pillars without compromising the stability of the mine

  • KM
    Kishore U. Candidate

    Does IGO extract sill pillars ?

  • Jonathan M.
    Jonathan M. Graduate Mining Engineer

    At Nova we design our stopes to not have sill pillars. Because we are a flat ore body we have multiple mining fronts, so we can mine somewhere else and come back once the previous stope is backfilled.
    I hope this helps

  • KM
    Kishore U. Candidate

    Yeah sure thing Joana thats sounds interesting as well
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