Recent incidents of water inrush at underground mines in Queensland and New South Wales have underscored the role of engineered water-retaining bulkheads and dam walls as part of a water management plan. As underground mines across Australia recover from the impact of recent rainfall and subsequent flood levels, safety authorities are now warning mine operators … Continue reading
Aquacrete is set for further growth in the mining and civil sectors following the completion of a significant stage in the improvement project at its Western Australian manufacturing plant. Aimed at maximising plant efficiencies whilst ensuring stringent product quality management, the project has included a plant-wide electrical upgrade as well as the introduction of new … Continue reading
On 26 March 2011, Aquacrete will join hundreds of millions of people across the planet in support of Earth Hour, the internationally recognized climate change awareness initiative. Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007 and has become a worldwide event across 128 countries and over 4600 cities, with people and businesses switching off their electricity … Continue reading
Stage 1 of the Plant Upgrade project at our Western Australian processing and manufacturing plant has been completed. Aimed at maximizing plant efficiencies whilst ensuring stringent product quality management, the first stage has included a plant-wide electrical upgrade as well as the introduction of new fans and an additional automated batching plant. The construction of … Continue reading
Aquacrete’s specialised ventilation control and geology consolidation solutions have continued to gather pace with the introduction of a new water-resistant shotblast product. Developed specifically for reinforcement and stabilisation where conditions may result in erosion from water, Aquacrete Wet-Repel™ has achieved a new benchmark in ventilation control performance. While achieving a compressive strength of up to … Continue reading
Establishing a computational engineering model has facilitated certification and compliance of ventilation control devices (VCDs). Hazards resulting from spontaneous heating, gas migration, explosions and flooding remain a major threat to the safety and productivity of underground mines. While ventilation officers rely on comprehensive computational fluid dynamic (CFD) models to simulate the various scenarios of flow … Continue reading
The importance and complexity of the ventilation systems in many underground coalmines necessitates the calculation and determination of appropriate resistance values to be used for individual ventilation control devices (VCDs). Whilst there is a clear need to determine the required product strength and thickness of a VCD to meet individual site specifications, such data has … Continue reading
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