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Bentley’s New MineCycle Applications Empower Optioneering for Faster and Better Mine Planning and Design Decisions
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced the launch of Bentley’s new MineCycle softwar...
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Bentley Systems Names Dr. Artur Krawczyk 2014 Educator of the Year
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced that it has named Artur Krawczyk, Ph.D., lect...
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Mine collapse in Indonesia kills 18 people
A potentially illegal gold mine collapsed in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province, killing at least 18 people. Locals in the area cannot securely estimate how many people were trapped underground...
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Video: Mine spill in British Columbia to release toxic silt to nearby lake
- Sep, 16, 2014
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures Mining Aerial Geoenvironmental Engineering
- Mount Polley, British Columbia
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
A tailings pond at the Mount Polley gold and copper mine in central B.C. failed last month and released millions of cubic meters of waste water, triggering a state of emergency for the local community...
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Scientists explain the bend in the Appalachian mountain chain!
- Jul, 24, 2014
- Other News Mining Oil & Gas Structural Geology
- University of Rochester
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
The Appalachian mountains form a 1500 mile long almost straight chain running from Alabama to Newfoundland. The interesting bend observed in Pennsylvania and New York State was recently explained...
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Bentley adds new functionality to its popular gINT software
- May, 20, 2014
- News On Software Data Management Mining Foundation Design / Construction Geoenvironmental Engineering
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
With subsurface investigations and analysis being at the core of every project, Bentley’s software - gINT - provides centralized data management and reporting for subsurface projects of all types: ge...
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Illegal gold mine collapses in Colombia, trapping 30 people
Up to 30 people were trapped underground, after a collapse in a gold mine in Santander de Quilichao, located in the south-west of Colombia. So far twelve people have been recovered dead and rescu...
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8.2 quake hits northern Chile, triggering tsunami warning
- Apr, 02, 2014
- Other News Earthquake Reconnaissance Mining
- 19.642°S 70.817°W
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
An 8.2 magnitude earthquake hit northern Chile on Tuesday evening at 20:46 local time about 86km north-west of the mining area of Iquique, prompting the Pacific Tsunami Warning Cente to issu...
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Bentley Announces Winners of 2013 Be Inspired Awards
- Nov, 07, 2013
- News On Awards Other Geotechnical Mining Geoenvironmental Engineering Foundation Design / Construction Data Management
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced the winners of the 2013 Be Inspired Awards at a ceremony during The Year in Infrastructure 2013 Conference, held 29-31 October in London, United Kingdom. T...
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Flooded coal mine kills 10 workers
- Oct, 08, 2013
- Other News Mining Risk & Reliability
- FENYANG SHANXI CHINA
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
Ten miners were killed. Another two were rescued 10 days after the flooding on September 28, in the Zhengsheng coal mine in the North Province of Shanxi, China. Mine accidents are common in China o...
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