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Ground Support Selection
Coffey Mining has specialist expertise in assessing ground support requirements in all mining environments including seismically active areas. We have developed support selection procedures to account for the operating life and duty of an excavation, the need for compatible performance between support elements and the need for the support system to be practical and cost-effective. Our ultimate objective is to maintain stability and safety during all phases of mining.
Services include:
- evaluation of potential failure mechanisms based on a ground condition assessment
- determination of static and dynamic loading conditions
- selection of the most appropriate support elements taking into account support performance, operating life, total installed cost and any site access constraints
- quality control and on-site supervision of support installation
- audits of installed ground support
- monitoring of support performance
- support rehabilitation assessments
- on-site testing of support elements performance.
