GEOMECHANICS / GROUND CONTROL

Ground support to major depths

Shotcrete is not often in the headlines, but it is a necessary part of any underground mine's ground-support system. Nadav Shemer talks to industry leaders

Nadav Shemer
Shotcrete seen in action through Putzmeister's SPM 500 Wetkret

Shotcrete seen in action through Putzmeister's SPM 500 Wetkret

It doesn't bring to underground mining that same feeling of innovation as, say, new hard-rock cutting technology, nor represent spraying with the same panache as graffiti. But despite its inability to...

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