MELBOURNE, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Australia's Newcrest Mining is tapping big data and block caving to delve deeper into the earth's crust for mineral riches that just a handful of years ago would have ...

The project is located in South Australia’s highly prospective Gawler Craton. The Carrapateena project, currently in construction, will mine an 84-million-tonne inventory using the sublevel caving ...

BLOCK caving seems to have become the preferred mining method for every second mine these days and Newcrest Mining is both joining the throng and providing the obvious de-risked template for others ...

The Carrapateena operation produced first concentrate in December 2019 and is now ramping up to an expected 4.25-million-tonne-a-year production rate by the end of 2020. A prefeasibility study (PFS) ...