Thursday, December 10

Time Zone Santiago, Chile. UTC -3

English - Spanish Audio Available

OPENING CEREMONY AND PLENARY SESSIONS

18:05 OPENING - R Castro

18:10 Challenges and opportunities of sustainable mass mining in BHP – Minerals Americas C Avila
18:42 Digital transformation in cave mining G Flores
19:15 Blasting’s critical role in extracting ore A Melbourne, W Andrade, F Biulchi, M Ribeiro, C Lima and F Santos
19:45 Questions & Answers

ROOM 1 ROOM 2 ROOM 3

Cave Management II Mine Development II Surface Mining

Chair: Raúl Castro Chair: Eduardo Rojas Chair: José Saavedra

7:50 OPENING 7:50 OPENING 7:50 OPENING

8:00 Driving and managing stress in the Deep Mill Level Zone
caving mine
K Simanjuntak, A Primadiansyah, N Soumilena and W Teweng
8:16 Initial setup of hydraulic fracturing in Deep Mill Level
Zone (DMLZ) underground mine, PT. Freeport Indonesia,
Papua, Indonesia
N Nugraha, R Bastiawarman and I Edgar
8:29 Field test and numerical simulation of preconditioning by
hydraulic fracturing in hard rock iron mine
W Li, YM Liu, XW Chen, CN Xia, X Yao and JW Chu
8:42 Break
8:47 Hydraulic Fracturing in Cave Mining. Opportunities for
improvement
Hydraulic fracturing in cave mining: Opportunities for
improvement
9:03 Analysis of extraction level layouts for block caving
RE Gómez, K Saéz, N Pino, E Labbe and E Marambio
9:25 Questions & Answers
8:00 Analysis of drillhole deviation during drawbell
construction in Block Caving
N Bustos, E Villaescusa and I Onederra
8:14 Blasting design and drawbell implementation at the
Chuquicamata Underground Mine
F Rodríguez, A Berg, JC Videla, N Jamett, D Morales, R Castro and
L Arancibia
8:32 Study on stress evolution of production
developmentbottom structure in the undercutting
process of block caving
W Fan, Y Liu, J Liao, X Chen, C Xia and W Li
8:41 Break
8:46 Key Factors in Cave Excavation in Deep Mining
F Varas and P Tobar
9:08 The application of civil engineering construction
practices in cave mines for improved extraction and
reliability
SO Colbeck and J Elliott
9:22 Observational Rock Mass Damage Model Associated to
Caving Advance of Chuquicamata Underground Mine
HE Constanzo, PC Guerra and GA Barindelli
9:40 A gradient damage model applied to underground
mining methods
S Gaete, A Jofre, R Lecaros, G Montecinos, JH Ortega, J Ramírez-
Ganga and J San Martín
8:00 The Final Result of Slope Optimization Program at
Grasberg Surface Mine in Papua, Indonesia
M Mahayasa, E Widijanto, AT Yuniar and R Gautama
8:18 From the long term planning to the operation. The role of
the hydrogeological strategic plan for a large open pit
A Sánchez, J Calderón and J Díaz
8:36 A comparison between open-pit ramp designs obtained
by varying design characteristics and through linear
optimization
Moreno, M Reyes and P Nancel-Penard
8:47 Break
8:52 Application of a Semi-Automatic Method for Optimal
Ramp Design
CA Cerón, P Nancel-Penard and N Morales
9:00 A comparison between conventional nested pits based
on LG and an extended approach for nested pits
generation in open-pit mine production
E Jélvez, M Caro, N Morales and A Carpanetti
9:17 A methodology based on dynamic pressure estimation to
avoid misfires: a case study
S Marambio, M Cánovas, J Arzúa, M Maleki, J González and G
García-Ros
9:30 Loading and Hauling Process Simulation for Weekly Mine
Plan Compliance
A Reyes, J Pastrán and H Painevilo
 Thursday, December 10
ROOM 1 ROOM 2 ROOM 3

9:52 Understanding and Planning for Excavation Challenges 10:00 Questions & Answers
R Bewick, S Otto, C Griffiths and D Badner
10:10 Questions & Answers
SPONSOR TALKS SPONSOR TALKS
11:30 Itasca and the Big Five - Itasca 11:30 Robotic Solution to Charge Explosives in Open Pit Mining
12:30 BCTEC: Experts in sustainable mining planning, be part of - ENAEX
new mine generation
13:30 Big Caves and the Management of Financing Risks – A 13:00 Evolution of Hydraulic Fracturing Equipment for Mining
Technical Perspective - SRK - IPI

ROOM 1 ROOM 2 ROOM 3

Materials Handling Rock Mass Characterisation I Caving Mechanics II

Chair: Enrique Rubio Chair: Luis Felipe Orellana Chair: Kimie Suzuki

14:35 OPENING 14:35 OPENING 14:35 OPENING

14:45 Simulation Modelling of Carrapateena Sub Level Cave
Production Level Performance
D Hronsky, S Mariager, S Donaldson, L Bobbermen and C Eustace
15:01 Bottleneck analysis of the extraction system in sublevel
caving exploitation using simulation
N Chavez, J Aymachoque and PP Vasquez
15:18 Kemess Underground: Project Update, Production
Simulation, and Quadrant Crusher Layout
J Fitzgerald, CJ Clark, PO Labrecque and AM Kalviainen
15:34 Break
15:39 Operational and real-time LHD dispatch using
mathematical programming at Rio Tinto’s Argyle
Diamond Mine
SN Donaldson, W Harney and T Cox
15:53 Development of a Discrete Event Simulation Model for
Cave Mining Ore Handling Systems with Open Source
Tools
DA Silva
16:10 High-capacity Production Systems for Block Caving Mines
DM Morrison and PO Labrecque
16:28 Simulation Approach for Development Muck Planning
J Cornejo, G Lasagna, G País and H Alarcón
16:55 Questions & Answers
14:45 Where geology meets engineering in hydrothermally
altered environments: considering veins in geotechnical
engineering
JJ Day, MD Clark and GA Rudderham
15:01 Delineation of concealed structures in block caving
environments using seismic response to hydraulic
fracturing: A methodology
DE Tennant and PG Stonestreet
15:20 Structural Model Generation for the First Lift of
Exploitation, Chuquicamata Underground Mine
HE Constanzo and DA Harrison
15:38 Break
15:43 Structural recognition and rock mass characterization
in underground mines: A UAV and LiDAR mapping based
approach
CC Canales and ES Sellers
16:00 Fault characterization and modelling in the Deep Mill
Level Zone (DMLZ) mine
D Haflil, S Widodo, P Wiguna, W Barnett, L Zorzi and R Campbell
16:22 Numerical Modelling Calculation of Probabilistic Seismic
Hazard in cave mining
J Jarufe, J Wesseloo, Y Potvin and C Dhanér
16:39 A new Approach to Rock Mass Quality Analysis
D. Elmo
17:10 Questions & Answers
14:45 Back Analysis of Cave Propagation and Subsidence at
Cadia East Mine
E Ghazvinian, M Fuenzalida, C Orrego and M Pierce
15:02 Cave propagation factor for caving rate and drawpoint
productivity forecasting at PTFI
ME Pierce, R Campbell, K Llewelyn, M Fuenzalida, K Simanjuntak,
A Kurniawan, D Haflil, F Meiriyanto and S Rogers
15:21 An overview of large-scale unified finite element
numerical models currently being developed for the
mining industry
E Córdova, F Reusch and D Beck
15:47 Break
15:52 Theory and Implementation of the Itasca Constitutive
Model for Advanced Strain Softening (IMASS)
E Ghazvinian, T Garza-Cruz, L Bouzeran, M Fuenzalida, Z Cheng, C
Cancino and M Pierce
16:08 2D Value in 3D Caving Problems
J Roy and R Bewick
16:25 Questions & Answers