SYNOPSIS

The Mining Tunelling by Drill & Blast is one of the means to access to the Mineral and Metals that we use everyday in our life. The deepest mine in the world is almost 4 km deep and the workers need to commute everyday to their working site through shaft and tunnels. Recently we hear in TV and other medias about 30 over workers trapped inside working tunnel when the underground tunnel 600 metres below collapsed at Copper mine in Chile. In Civil Engineering construction,  tunnels are constructed for sewage disposal, transportation such as MRT, tube in London, Tokyo, New Delhi, railway tunnels, Water diversion tunnel, road through hills and endless other project. When encountering rock, tunneling by Drill & blast using explosives is the preferred method.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Graduated in Mining Engineering from University of Stratchclyde University in 1979 and upon returning joined The Mines Department Research Division as Research Engineer in the Mining Technology/ Geotechnical Engineering Division where he specialized in the investigation of mining slope failure, stability of wet and dry dump and application for mining near sensitive structure etc. As a government engineer he visited many underground of tunnel construction sites such Sungai Lembing underground tin mines, water deviation tunnel at Pergau Hydro electric project, and involved as the officer in charge in the investigation on the potential effect of Karak second tunnel blasting on the failures of Genting Sempah road failure in eartl 1990’s.

He had attended a Course on Open Pit and Underground Mining at Queen’s University Canada and recently attended a workshop on Drill & Blast by Tunnelling organized by International Society of Explosives Engineers of which he is a member  in India. He subsequently obtained M.Sc in Explosives Ordnance Engineering from Royal Military College of Science, Cranfield University, England and was involved in many Construction Blasting as evaluator and later as Consulting Engineer in Mining Quarrying and Explosives Engineering.. He has also visited the SMART tunneling project , Pahang Selangor water transfer tunnel and also current MRT project, He is also a current committee member of IEM Tunnel and underground Space Technical Division. As a Committee member of IEM Training Board he has attended many courses in Tunnelling, Geotechnical Engineering and Safety and Health as Auditor organized by IEM Technical Divisions and also Private Training Provider.

The talk will be supported by Engr Mohamad Razif  bin Kemat through videos and dummies . He graduated in Mineral Resources Engineering, USM in  2006 , He is currently the Technical Service Manager from Tenaga Kimia Berhad , the largest explosives company in Malaysia He  had extensive experience in providing technical advice to user of their explosives in tunneling project.He is a graduate member of IEM and also a member of International Society of Explosives Engineer.