Significant upside opportunity - Newcrest believes it will be able to unlock significant value from the deposit by applying its unique technical expertise in
block caving, operations optimisation and selective processing.
"It makes more sense to do sub-level caving method rather than
block caving for Silangan," Austin said.
As for the local miners, to overcome the production costs mining is mostly done using
block caving method.
The so-called induced caving mining method is a newly improved underground mining method as a combination of the
block caving mining method (Figure 2(a)) and the sublevel caving mining method (Figure 2(b)) essentially.
MacLean, a former Inco employee who worked in Sudbury, developed drawpoint obstruction clearance machines for
block caving rigs, including blockhole jumbos in the late 1970s.
Famorca, 81, said the tailings dam serves Philex's original
block caving operations at the Padcal mine in Itogon, Benguet.
Since retiring he has been involved in
block caving projects for BHP Billiton, Anglo American and Rio Tinto.
A component of our next drilling program will be to further expand the higher grade core while also expanding the larger system which is believed to be amenable to the low-cost
block caving mining method.'
Researchers will work on sensing technology for use in
block caving to measure the underground area containing minerals and the size and shape of these deposits.