TSXV:CAV.H - Post by User
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miner8740on Apr 23, 2012 10:24pm
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Ground Conditions
Ground Conditions With 95 % of the ore to come from ug, this could be the next challenging issue face by operations
Underground resource recovery will be impacted by extensive faulting, steep manto dip, mining method/equipment limitations, and historical mine workings. Except where access drifts cross faults, a 10 m buffer is left unmined on both sides of faults. Areas where the manto dip exceeds 25% are not mined. In general, during advance mining operations, areal ore recovery is limited to 25% of the available in place material. For retreat mining operations, areal recovery is estimated to be 75% of the available in place ore, providing an estimated overall recovery of available in place material averaging 65%
This may cause problems down the road, or is the issue know that we do not about. There is a tremodous amounts of faults around the mantos