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The Super Pit Y-Ramp

Design and construction of a 270m long rockfall protection drape in the Kalgoorlie, WA Gold Mine.

Project Overview

 

The Fimiston Mine operation, commonly referred to as the Super
Pit, is the largest open cut gold mine in Australia and is expected to
be over 1.35km long and to a depth of over 500m. After a rockfall event in the South East Corner of the Chaffers Cutback, mining
operations ceased with immediate effect to allow for a thorough risk
assessment to be completed and to discuss engineered solutions to
allow mining to continue beneath the high wall.

 

The remediation concept selected consisted of a high tensile drape
system reinforced with vertical support cables, which would allow
the rocks to fall, but in a controlled manner, guiding them to the toe of the slope to minimise bounce height and potential kinetic energy.

 

 

Geovert Solution

 

The design had to take into account potential loss of performance in the drape system due to the sheer height of the slope, over 270m in
length, reducing the strength of the drape by pre-tensioning the system under its own weight. To mitigate this, vertical cables were designed to transfer the load back to anchorage at the crest. This allowed the design boulder to be controlled during a potential rockfall between the mesh drape and the rock face, without compromising the system with the loads transferred through the mesh and into the top anchors and cables. The drape was installed top down with meticulous hand and mechanical scaling by Rope Access Tradesmen in combination with a 200t crane. Significant areas of instability within the upper stopes were contained with a dimensioned TECCO G65/4mm mesh system comprising rock bolting and isolated mesh,
which sat underneath the drape. Several critical factors had to be
considered to undertake construction including the extreme
Goldfields heat which reached temperatures over 55 degrees on
the face of the pit wall as well as the length of the work area meaning a significant section was out of the crane’s reach and required technical rigging systems for mesh application.

 

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Asset Integrity Maintenance 

Capabilities:

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Blasting and Painting

Bridge Maintenance

Certified Fall Arrest Anchor Systems

Concrete Condition Inspections

Concrete Repair and Crack Injections

Condition Surveys

Confined Space

Corrosion Management

Fabrication and Welding

Industrial Cleaning and Water Blasting

Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)

Plant Shutdowns

Protective Coatings and Waterproofing

Refractory Maintenance

Rope Access

Rigging and Heavy Lifting

Seismic and Structural Strengthening

Temporary Access Platforms

Avalanche Protection

Capabilities:

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Avalanche barriers and fences

Avalanche towers

Remote avalanche control systems

Snow avalanche protection systems

Snow netting

Basements & Foundations

Capabilities:

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Capping Beams

Ground Anchors

Limited Access Drilling

Micro Piling

Mini Piling

Rock Bolting

Seismic Retrofit

Self Drilled Hollow Bar

Shotcrete

Soil Nails

Temporary Ground Anchors

Timber Pole Walls

Geohazard Mitigation

Capabilities:

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Active Mesh Stabilisation

Debris Flow Barriers

Design and Build

Devegetation

Drill and Blast

Erosion Control

Geotechnical Inspection & Instrumentation

Rockfall Assessments and Investigation

Rockfall Attenuators

Rockfall Barriers

Rockfall Mesh Drapes

Rockfall Modelling

Scaling and Block Removal

Shallow Landslide Barriers

Ground Anchors

Capabilities:

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Ground Anchor Inspection

Ground Anchor Lift Off Test

Permanent Multistrand Ground Anchors

Platipus Anchors

Post Grouted Ground Anchors

Pregrouted Ground Anchors DCP

Removable Ground Anchors

Restressable Ground Anchors

Self Drilled Hollow Bar Anchors

Temporary Multistrand Ground Anchors

Ground Support

Capabilities:

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Active Mesh Stabilisation

Bulk Infil Grouting

Cable Bolts

Drill and Blast

Geotechnical Inspection & Instrumentation

Rockfall Assessments and Investigation

Highwall Stabilisation

Longwall Stabilisation

Portal Protection

Rock Bolting

Rockfall Barriers

Rockfall Mesh Drapes

Rockfall Modelling

Scaling and Block Removal

Retaining Structures

Capabilities:

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Active Mesh Stabilisation

Design and Build

Drill and Blast

Geotechnical Inspection & Instrumentation

Rock Bolting

Rock Bolting

Rockfall Attenuators

Rockfall Barriers

Rockfall Mesh Drapes

Rockfall Modelling

Scaling and Block Removal

Rockfall Protection

Capabilities:

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Active Mesh Stabilisation

Design and Build

Drill and Blast

Geotechnical Inspection & Instrumentation

Rock Bolting

Rock Bolting

Rockfall Attenuators

Rockfall Barriers

Rockfall Mesh Drapes

Rockfall Modelling

Scaling and Block Removal

Rope Access

Capabilities:

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Emergency Response

Geotechnical Instrumentation

Supervised Inspections

Slope Stabilisation

Capabilities:

 

Active Mesh Stabilisation

Devegetation

Erosion Control

Ground Support

Retaining Walls

Rock Bolting

Scaling and Block Removal

Shotcrete

Soil Nails

Tunnelling

Capabilities:

 

Canopy Tubes

Ground Anchors

Injection Grouting

Portal Protection

Rock Bolting

Shotcrete

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