GOLD
Gold miner St Barbara is studying a change in mining and haulage at the Gwalia mine, in Western Australia, to better suit the orebody as the mine deepens.
The new mining method essentially involves a move to “island pillar” methods for narrower lodes with increased mining rates, and matching that with increased haulage rates by moving to hydraulic hoisting.
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