Mining Engineering Projects

Recently Completed Projects

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- Treatment of PCB contaminated soil sediments.

- Assessment of highwall stability in Stellarton Pit Mine,
Nova Construction.

- Assessment of highwall stability in Evans Coal Mine,
Nova Construction.

- Industrial application of HiFa Bond,
National Research Council Canada / DGI Ltd.

- Sound velocity tests of Country Harbour rocks,

- Tangier Mine ventilation system assessment,
NS Dept. of Labor (with Amirault Ventures).

- Determination of Royal Oak mine(NFL) rock properties,
Royal Oak Mine, Newfoundland Division.

- Understanding of dynamic events in the Sydney Coalfield: Coal mine bumps and periodic weighting, Cape Breton Coal Research Laboratory.

- Development of a roof-mounted three dimensional fault slip monitoring
device, Technical University of Nova Scotia.

- Development of a displacement back-analysis technique using boundary element method, DGI Ltd.

- Underground fault slip survey and Analysis, Kidd Creek Mine.

- Three dimensional numerical modelling of mining and its effect in Kidd
Creek mines using Distinct Element Method.

- Improvement of source location accuracy for the MP250 microseismic
monitoring system, a Kidd Creek - CANMET joint venture.

- Geophone array optimization of the Kidd Creek seismic system.

- Full waveform analysis of the June 27 rockburst at Kidd Creek Mine.

- Development of a back-analysis technique to determine the in situ
stresses from stress/strain changes induced by excavation,
Laurentian University