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5-8 May 2009, Novotel Langley Hotel, Perth, Western Australia

The potential benefits of incremental improvements in development mining will be significant to the mining industry. The seminar will provide opportunities to learn from development mining practices around the world, including the highly mechanised and automated Scandinavian techniques, the skilled Australian contract mining industry, the safe Canadian practices and the ultra-deep developments in South Africa. The Australian Centre for Geomechanics intends to run a series of three seminars; Australia, South Africa and Canada. To be held in collaboration with Dick Stacey (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) and John Hadjigeorgiou (Université Laval, Canada).

THEMES • Risk and safety • Ground support and rehabilitation • Development blasting • Equipment and automation • Development cycle time and cost optimisation • Vertical development: shaft and raises CALL FOR PAPERS Intending authors are requested to prepare and submit their abstracts before 22 September, 2008 to the Australian Centre for Geomechanics via acg@acg.uwa.edu.au. All accepted written papers will be peer reviewed and published in the First International Seminar on Safe and Rapid Development Mining Proceedings. SPONSORSHIP Please contact Josephine Ruddle for information about the trade exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at acg@acg.uwa.edu.au. KEY DATES Submission of abstracts: 22 September 2008 Submission of papers: 27 October 2008 Safe and Rapid Development Mining '09 5-8 May 2009

Abstract Guidelines Abstracts are to be submitted in a Word document and should be limited to less than 500 words. The abstract is to provide a general scope of the work, a summary of the results, and the significance of the work and applications. It should also include the title, authors’ affiliations, and the contact author’s address, telephone and fax numbers and email address. Maximum paper length is 10 A4 size pages.

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Australian Centre for Geomechanics Contact Information Phone: (+61 8) 6488 3300 Facsimile: (+61 8) 6488 1130 E-mail: acg@acg.uwa.edu.au Web: www.acg.uwa.edu.au

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