Heading towards great depths | LKAB Passed
Wednesday June 2, 2021 12:45 - 14:40 Deep rock engineering challenges | hosted by LKAB
Speaker: Matthias Wimmer
Moderator: Jordi Puig
Theme: Deep rock engineering
Recent exploration results are very promising and reveal opportunities for continued future mining at greater depths. Changed conditions in terms of more complex geometries in combination with the present encountered rock mechanical problems require though a mind shift for the mine design and mining method used to maintain safe and productive operations. This presentation gives an insight into our rock engineering challenges and possible solutions.
Lecturers
Matthias Wimmer SpeakerExhibitor
Manager Mining Technology, Kiruna mine
LKAB
Dr Matthias Wimmer is the Manager for Mining Technology at LKAB´s Kiruna mine. He is for more than 10 years with LKAB and has worked several years as a Senior Researcher on various projects which aimed to increase efficiency in production in the underground mines. During that time, he has also been involved in international projects such as the MMT (Mass Mining Technology) research project, and in European-funded research projects, such as I2Mine and the most recent being Real-Time Mining.
Matthias Wimmer graduated from the University of Leoben in Austria as a Mining Engineer in 2006. During his studies he worked at various mine and tunneling sites in Central Europe. He commenced his professional career with working for the Swedish Blasting Research Centre (Swebrec) at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. His research was awarded a PhD in the subject of Rock Mechanics & Rock Engineering. Matthias Wimmer still works closely together with academia. Amongst others, he supervises student theses and gives lectures both at the Universities in Leoben and Luleå in the field of underground mass mining methods. He has authored and co-authored more than 30 journal and conference papers throughout the years.
Matthias technical expertise is the selection and design of underground mining methods, and more specifically drill and blast designs, fragmentation and gravity flow of broken rock mass.
Jordi Puig Moderator
Head of Mining Technology
LKAB
Jordi Puig is the R&D Manager for the Mining Technology Department at LKAB. Responsible for the technical development to reach greater depths at LKAB mines, safely, with increased productivity, CO2 free and with a reduced environmental impact.
Previous experience includes development of new mining projects and operational experience in several positions in different countries in Africa, South America and Europe for the past 15 years. He holds a degree in mining from Wits University in South Africa and UPC in Manresa (Spain), a MSc from WASM in Australia and a BSc in Environmental Sciences from UAB in Barcelona.