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Stop! Hammer time

IMAGINE if it was possible to check whether a rock bolt had been installed correctly. Mine & Civil Integrity Testing manager operations and technical services Dr Rhett Hassell did and he may have found a way to do it.

A non-destructive way of testing cable bolts may have been found.

A non-destructive way of testing cable bolts may have been found.

Hassell told the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy's Underground Operators Conference 2021 that when there was seismic activity underground the best place to be standing was under the properly...

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