Associated Event

Hotel Bonaventure, Montreal, Canada
24 – 26 September 2024

mXrap User Case Studies for Mines Seminar

23 September 2024 | Rooms Montreal 2 & 3, Hotel Bonaventure, Montreal, Canada | Online

Objective 

This event is designed to allow mXrap users to share (through presented case studies) their experience of using mXrap and the problems they have been able to address using the software package.  

Who should attend? 

Engineers interested in geotechnical risk mitigation at their operations, particularly those with issues related to seismicity. 

Program*

This is a half day program which includes lunch from 12:00-13:00.

Time Program
07:15
REGISTRATION
07:50

Welcome and introduction Dr Daniel Cumming-Potvin, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Australia

08:00

Monitoring inrush risk with mXrap: from idea to reality Robyn Teet, Resolve Mining Solutions, Australia

08:30

Modelling and monitoring of rockburst damage areas using seismic events in mXrap: a Westwood mine case study Aboubacar Koulibaly, IAMGOLD Corporation, Canada

09:00
BREAK
09:15

Seismic data quality assessment process for design applications Lindsay Moreau-Verlaan, RockEng Inc., Canada

09:45

Roles of mXrap in seismic data QA/QC Wei Duan, Westgold Resources Limited, Australia

10:15

BREAK

10:30

A strategy for back analysis of mine scale events Ben Ollila, SRK Consulting, Canada

11:00

Feature-rich seismic catalogues using the BEMIS mXrap extension Wille Törnman, Rocksigma AB, Sweden

11:30

Using mXrap to build, post process and interpret numerical models to control geotechnical vulnerabilities Dr Juan Jarufe, University of Santiago, Chile

11:50
SEMINAR CLOSE
12:00
LUNCH

*Program is subject to change.

Facilitator

Dr Daniel Cumming-Potvin
Project Lead – mXrap
Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Australia

Daniel completed his Bachelor of Mining Engineering and PhD at The University of Western Australia in 2012 and 2018, respectively. He has worked at a number of underground metal mines in Australia, specialising in the areas of ground support, monitoring, and mine seismicity. He is project lead for mXrap.

Presenters

Wei Duan
Senior Geotechnical Engineer
Westgold Resources Limited, Australia

Fascinated by the complexity of seismicity, Wei embarked on his journey into geotechnical engineering in 2011. He completed his Master’s degree in dynamic support design at the Australian Centre for Geomechanics, The University of Western Australia, where he also contributed to the development of the mXrap software. Wei has dedicated significant time to seismic risk management, including installation and fine-tuning monitoring systems, processing and interrogating seismic data, rockburst investigation and mine design review. Currently, his focus is on mitigating large magnitude seismicity through hydraulic fracturing techniques.

Professor Juan Jarufe
Professor
University of Santiago, Chile

Juan has been working as an underground geotechnical engineer in the New Mine Level Project since the beginning of the project in 2006, at Scope Engineering. He has since been involved in the different stages of the project up until the construction stage which is occurring now.
Juan has been involved in the development of numerical modellings to represent the stress field around excavations and to represent the mining induced damage around underground excavations and into the design and implementation and interpretation of the New Mine Level microseismic System.
Juan was awarded his PhD student from The University of Western Australia, partaking in a research program focused on the numerical modelling of the seismic response of shear zones.

Aboubacar Koulibaly
Rock Mechanics/Seismic Engineer
IAMGOLD Corporation, Canada

Lindsay Moreau-Verlaan
Principal Geomechanics Consultant
RockEng Inc., Canada

Lindsay is a principal geomechanics consultant with RockEng Inc. Educated as a mine engineer, Lindsay complements her desire to resolve challenging rock engineering problems with proficiency in practical, operations-based solutions. Over her 20-year career, Lindsay has developed, lead, managed and executed operations-based geomechanics and ground control programs in some of Canada’s most challenging geotechnical environments. In her current role, Lindsay offers extensive expertise in stability hazard management with a strong focus in underground high-stress seismic risk mitigation, incorporating both strategic design approaches and tactical ground control measures.

Ben Ollila
Senior Rock Mechanics Engineer
SRK Consulting, Canada

Ben Ollila is a rock mechanics engineer with over 13 years of expertise in underground mining, including over a year working as an underground miner. Graduating in geological engineering from the University of Waterloo, he worked for seven years as a ground control engineer at Glencore’s 3 km deep Kidd Creek mine before pursuing a master’s in mine seismology at Laurentian University. Now with SRK Consulting in Vancouver, Ben specialises in geotechnical mine design, rock mass characterisation, management of mine seismicity, and operational support.

Robyn Teet
Senior Geotechnical Engineer
Resolve Mining Solutions, Australia

After graduating from Camborne School of Mines in 2011with an MSc Applied Geotechnics, Robyn started in the mining industry back in a geotechnical role in Mali, West Africa. Growing her skills and experience from day one, she quickly learnt the need to be agile in the highly dynamic world that is mining. Following Mali, Robyn took a role with an international mining consultancy which would provide experience globally across a variety of mining methods both underground and on surface across all aspects of geotechnical engineering. From core logging and mapping through to data analysis for feasibility studies, the appreciation from the grass roots of geotechnical engineering up would set her in good stead for her future career. Learning from an established team of mining professionals across multiple disciplines, she continued to develop a broad skill base in the geotechnical field before returning to mining operations in 2016. Working at Northparkes provided Robyn an opportunity to develop caving geomechanics which, within a short time, became a passion for her, particularly developing skills in the operational and software space that facilitated holistic data collection and analysis. With a varied career, across several roles and varying levels of responsibility, Robyn continues to explore her interests and passions in the geotechnical discipline whilst working with Resolve Mining Solutions and providing practical and grounded solutions to geotechnical challenges for varied and unique projects.

Wille Törnman
Researcher/Developer
Rocksigma AB, Sweden

With 15 years’ expertise in applied statistics, signal processing, mining and seismology, Wille specialises in mining induced seismicity. He has worked as a researcher at LKAB, focusing on mine seismology, for more than a decade and has a master’s degree in engineering physics and an licentiate degree in mining and rock engineering at Luleå University of Technology. At RockSigma, he is innovating seismic processing solutions and analysis to make mining safer and more productive.

If you have any questions, please email info-acg@uwa.edu.au