BIG DATA AND DIGITALISATION
For the sub level cave, tunnelling in the host rock
is complete and 6 of 11 tunnels are in production
on the 1st level. In addition, a new Block 5 block
cave is to be installed at 900 m by 2024. At
Cullinan, production will increase to 2.2 Mct/y by
FY 2019 (2 Mct ROM and 0.2 Mct from tailings).
C-Cut Phase 1 is a new block cave being
established on the western side of the orebody.
Development work is transitioning from waste
tunnelling in host rock to kimberlite, with the first
rings in the undercut blasted in June 2015. Some
1 Mt ROM from new block cave will have been
mined in FY 2017.
The company argues that using spatial
databases, automated or tele-remote machines,
tunnel cutting machi