The absence of strategy in orepass planning, design, and management
prevalent geological structure, thus aggravating the situation.
Another example that demonstrates the costs of lack of
strategy is from a nickel mine, where the mine had no
alternative but to rehabilitate a critical orepass using a liner.
The actual costs of the rehabilitation orepass were close to
C$7 million.
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The contribution of several colleagues at minesites in North
America and South Africa is greatly acknowledged. The
opinions expressed in this paper are of the authors and do
not necessarily reflect the opinion of various companies or
institutions we have worked with in the past nor of our
sponsors, such as the Deepmine Research Programme,
Institut de Recherche Robert Sauvé en Santé et en Sécurité du
Travail (IRSST), and the Natural Science and Engineering
Research Council of Canada.
The second author is supported in part by the National
Research Foundation of South Africa (Grant specific unique
reference number (UID) 85971). The Grantholder
acknowledges that opinions, findings and conclusions or
recommendations expressed in any publication generated by
the NRF supported research are that of the author(s), and
that the NRF accepts no liability whatsoever in this regard.
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paper in the SAIMM Journal in July 2013
entitled, ʻKX36—rediscovering the diamond
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J.M. Davidson, vol, 113, no 7, pp. 539–545
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Kennedy and Kennedy (1976)