Mining

ASC provides critical information on fracture networks for reducing hazards and increasing operational and safety performance.

• ASC supplies software and hardware solutions for microseismic monitoring of deep mines and provides advanced analysis for fracture clustering, network orientation, size and spacing, and their relationships to the production environment.
• ASC facilitates a complete interpretation of the response of a rock mass to stress changes induced by mining operations by integrating in-situ microseismic observations with tests performed on Synthetic Rock Mass models.
• The Synthetic Rock Mass models are constructed and tested using Itasca’s Bonded Particle Modelling tool PFC. For details on Itasca's software click here (external site).

 

• Locating events and determining their source parameters provides information on the zoning of rock damage and the fracturing process. ASC uses advanced location algorithms to minimise uncertainties imposed by a complex velocity structure.  
• Analysing a catalogue of microseismic data provides information on the distribution and geometry of fracture networks and their relationship to mining operations.

Monitoring Equipment

• At ASC we use our experience of international monitoring programmes to advise on data-acquisition hardware and provide specific hardware solutions.
• ASC has a comprehensive hardware range providing cost-effective solutions from sensors and signal conditioning to high-speed data acquisition.
• We provide our clients an in-depth and objective analysis of the design and type of hardware required in a project.

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