This year, the 35th Mining Games are being hosted by the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado from March 13-17. Teams represent universities throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, England, Germany, and Holland.
‘The applications of this scanner are endless,’ said Kyle Perry, Assistant Professor of Mining Engineering. ‘Our graduate students have used it for monitoring highwall and impoundment movement, as well as calculating cast percentages of surface blasts.’
Understanding our own abilities is an essential first step in developing the business savvy needed to effectively lead others, according to Dr Juan Sebastián Montes at the Maptek South American users conference in Viña del Mar this week.
Maptek Eureka™ is the latest in a line of original solutions from mining technology developer Maptek that give miners an intelligent window into their data.
Colonel Mike Mullane, retired astronaut, recounted his own near-death experience in a fighter jet, when he failed to speak up about an unsafe situation.
