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SCT Staff Presenting at the 2019 Coal Operators Conference
SCT Geotechnical Engineers , Dr Ken Mills and Ben Blacka presented two papers and Adrian Rippon was a session chairman at the 2019 Coal Operators Conference, held at the University of Wollongong, NSW from 18 – 20 February 2019.
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SCT Staff Explore Ground Control Solutions at The ICGCM 2018, USA
SCT Directors Yvette Heritage and Ken Mills participated in the 37th International Conference on Ground Control in Mining held in West Virginia during late July, 2018.
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SCT, CSIRO and LKAB Conduct Hydraulic Fracturing Trial in Sweden for Reduction of Mine Seismicity
A team of SCT Engineers led by Dr Rob Jeffrey and Dr Ken Mills travelled to Sweden in May to undertake the first full-scale hydraulic fracturing trial at LKAB’s Kiirunavaara Mine in Northern Sweden. The SCT team consisting of Dr Rob Jeffrey, Dr Ken Mills, Jesse Puller and Kenny Mills worked collaboratively with a team from CSIRO’s Melbourne hydraulic fracturing group and a select group of Engineers from LKAB’s R&D, project and operational rock mechanics departments.
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10th MSTS Triennial Conference on Mine Subsidence Supported by strong SCT presence
SCT senior staff Winton Gale, Ken Mills and Yvette Heritage were honoured to present at the 10th MSTS Conference held in Pokolbin, NSW over the 5th – 7th November 2017.
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Strata Control Technology Awarded Runner Up at the Australian Technologies Competition with New 3D Stress Measurement System
SCT was awarded runner up in the Energy Resources category at a Gala dinner held in Sydney on Wednesday night. The Australian Technologies Competition (ATC) comprised nearly 170 entrants from across Australia, short-listed initially to 38 semi-finalists, and then to 16 finalists.