Underground Mining

Underground mining operations take place in highly risky and hazardous environment that poses significant challenges to personnel, machinery and production. For these reasons, underground mining requires a broader environment assessment to mitigate such risks and challenges. Our underground mining team brings years of practical first-hand experience to the table for various underground mining production technologies.

The First Choice for Underground Mining Support

GTS underground mining experts have the expertise to help mine operators to identify and implement solutions to help keep underground mine, machinery and people safe with real production results.

Whether they are addressing safety of their men and machines or looking to add value to their operations and boost productivity, customers look to GTS underground mining experts.

What Makes Us Unique

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Personnel safety is the primary concern in the harsh working environments in all underground mines. GTS underground mining experts ensure that going underground must always feel safe and to provide this confidence to mine personnel, GTS team conducts a comprehensive safety management program.

  • Develop, revise and govern the Company safety policy
  • Monitor safety practises
  • Design and operation of ventilation and air control
  • Monitor strata control
  • Monitor hazardous gases and materials
  • Dewatering solutions
  • Consolidating fractured strata and fill voids

Strata control is a major concern in underground mining operation and its related incidents like fall of roof and sides continued to remain the leading cause of fatal incidents in underground coal mines. GTS underground mining experts assess and analyse the roof behaviour, implement situation specific reinforcement monitoring solutions that control and stabilise rock in excavated or unstable areas.

  • Preparation and implementation of strata management plan
  • Secure local regulatory approval
  • Routine monitoring, collection of data, interpretation and implementation of suitable action
  • Consolidation of strata with suitable filling solutions
  • Offering of product solutions such as resin bolting, cable bolting, bulbed anchors for the better reinforcement of strata
  • Preparation of plans, instrumentation plan, routine monitoring, data collection, interpretation, reports, subsidence and convergence
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Ventilation, if not managed effectively, its effects are far-reaching and can pose serious threats to both people’s lives and environment. Poor ventilation can also result in high inefficiencies, high running costs and financial losses. GTS underground mining experts work on one clear objective - uninterrupted air flows in sufficient quantity and quality to dilute contaminants to a safe level.

  • Evaluation and survey of comprehensive ventilation network
  • Ventilation modelling and design of fans and circuits
  • Qualitative and quantitative survey of ventilation network
  • Routine monitoring and recommendations

Water ingress is another most serious geological hazards in underground mining that causes severe problems such as impacting production cycle times and reducing the quality of structural elements that poses huge risks to health and safety of people working underground. GTS underground mining experts offer flexible solutions range to combat water ingress and to stop water penetration from flowing through rock fractures.

  • Hydreology survey and pesomatric testing
  • Pumping solutions from both surface and underground
  • Deep hole drilling
  • Injection solutions to consolidate fractured strata
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GTS underground mining team has significant experience in operation and maintenance of underground mine operations. From developing, managing, and optimizing your technical service team; providing planning, scheduling and controlling your operations, improving your existing operational challenges to providing short-term / long -term operational support; GTS underground mining team can help optimize operational efficiency and improves bottom line.

  • Establish correct organizational approach to maintenance management
  • Implementation of maintenance planning system
  • Preventative and corrective maintenance practises
  • Production schedule optimization model
  • Parts and warehouse management