OUR PRODUCTS
Aquacrete offers a range of rapid-setting, high strength products that can be shotblasted to any desired thickness, in a single application, to create an explosion-rated gas and air barrier in underground mines.
Product Features
Safer
- Low toxicity
- Specialist training provided
- Fire resistant
- Anti-static
- Creates an explosion-rated gas and air barrier
- Cures to off-white colour
Faster
- Aquacrete products can be spray blasted to any desired thickness in a single application
- Aquacrete products are rapid-setting and achieve the specified rating within 24 hours and a compressive strength of 14 MPa in as little as 48 hours and 25 MPa in 28 days
- Aquacrete products do not slump
Stronger
- Aquacrete complies with mining industry over-pressure and thickness requirements for ventilation control devices (Queensland Department of Mines & Energy)
- Product certification has been issued by an accredited National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) laboratory for over-pressure performance in a live underground blast test
Product Applications
Aquacrete products have been developed to specifically address the varied and complex geology consolidation and ventilation control requirements of underground mines. The table below identifies Aquacrete products and their suitability for a range of applications
| APPLICATION | OPR2™ | WET-REPEL™ | FLEXIBLE SAIL STOPPINGS | HESSIAN BAGS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ventilation seals & stoppings | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Overcasts | ✔ | ✔ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Overcast wings | ✔ | ✔ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Rib consolidation | ✔ | ✔ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Longwall rib consolidation | ✔ | ✔ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Rib highlight | ✔ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Cavity filling | ✔ | ✔ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Ground stabilisation | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✔ |
| Roof & fall consolidation | ✔ | ✔ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Stopping & seal repairs | ✔ | ✔ | ✗ | ✔ |
| Bulkheads | ✗ | ✔ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Segregation stoppings | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✗ |
| Roadway stabilisation | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✔ |
| Dam walls | ✗ | ✔ | ✗ | ✔ |
| Underground heat sealing | ✔ | ✔ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Corrosion & water control | ✗ | ✔ | ✗ | ✔ |
Product Range
Aquacrete offers a range of quality ventilation control products for underground mining all of which comply with the Aquacrete Product Features of being Safer, Faster and Stronger.