Projects Portfolio

Optimal Pushback Design Project Number: P1210Status: Open to sponsorsAmira Program Manager: Olga Verezub Overview: The aim of this project is to develop software that optimises designs for the operational constraints of connectivity, minimum bench width and appropriate angles between pushbacks. Current market solutions provide blocky designs that have no practical mining considerations, require significant human intervention and reduces potential of some oreblocks for inclusion into the life of mine design and schedule. The software incorporates features to minimise each of…

Overview: Inspired by the highly successful West African Exploration Initiative (WAXI) and positive results from the first stage, the SAXI program has progressed to the next stage. The overall aim of the program is to enhance the exploration potential of North-East South America through an integrated program of research and data gathering into the “anatomy” of the Guiana Shield and neighbouring terranes. Key motivations for undertaking this initiative are to assist exploration companies in focusing their activities in areas of maximum prospectivity;…

Evaluation of Tailings Storage Facilities monitoring technologies Project Number: P1217Status: ActiveAmira Program Manager: Silvia Black Part of Amira’s Future Tailings Program Overview: In the aftermath of the recent spate of Tailings Storage Facilities (TSF) failures, there has been a significant increase in activity relating to the monitoring of TSFs. A focus of this project is to provide an independent evaluation of a range of monitoring technologies and their suitability for the application of providing advance warning of potential instabilities of…