Cemented rock fill (CRF) is commonly used in cut-and-fill stoping operations underground mining. This allows for the maximum recovery of ore. Backfilling can improve stope stability workings and then ground whole mine site. However, backfilling step scenarios vary from site to paper presents investigation five different their impacts on stopes at four mining levels. A comprehensive comparison d...

We explore the problem of content-aware image fill with convolutional neural networks. Given an image that is partially masked, our goal is to generate realistic-looking content to fill the masked parts of the image. This task is also sometimes referred to as image completion or image inpainting. We experiment with several different network architectures for the problem, and we observe our most...

The Boundary Element Method has been applied to calculate stress distribution and stability of underground mines for disposal of chemical waste. A case similar to the Stripa mine in Sweden has been considered. The rock mass was granite, with major fracture zones represented by three families of planes mutually orthogonal and 100 meters distant from each other. The pre and post processor GiD [3]...

In underground mining, hydraulic backfill materials, such as waste tailings, river sand, and cement, are often used to fill underground mined stopes. In cut-and-fill mining methods with blasthole stoping and delayed backfill, after extraction of adjacent pillars that contain economic minerals, the backfill is often subject to exposure of free standing on at least one side. A key concern for min...

A new type of cosmic-ray experiment is under construction in the Pyhäsalmi mine in the underground laboratory of the University of Oulu, Finland. It aims to study the composition of cosmic rays at and above the knee region. The experiment, called EMMA, will cover approximately 150 m of detector area. The array is capable of measuring the multiplicity and the lateral distribution of underground ...

Doing large-scale genomics experiments can be expensive, and so experimenters want to get the most information out of each experiment. To this end the Maximally Informative Next Experiment (MINE) criterion for experimental design was developed. Here we explore this idea in a simplified context, the linear model. Four variations of the MINE method for the linear model were created: MINE-like, MI...