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Project Info

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01 / 05 / 2014
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CC13TM Bulk Roll

# 30sqm

Longitudinal layers

Kalgoorlie, Goldfields
W.A., Australia

ROCK Australia for

KCGM

i CC13TM used to
construct a vent wall
to improve ventilation
in a mine

Finished vent wall

In May 2014, Concrete Canvas® GCCM* (CC) was used to create a vent wall at The Super Pit mine in Kalgoorlie,
Goldfields W.A., Australia. The client was KCGM (Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines) and was a joint venture
between Barrick and Newmont. It was identified that ventilation needed to be improved in the lower levels of Mt.
Charlotte Underground Mine. In order to do this several permanent walls needed to be constructed. As the area
was difficult to access the use of conventional wall construction methods such as shotcrete were not an option.
Investigation was carried out to find the best alternative method to construct walls in remote areas of the mine and it
was decided to trial the use of CC.

A wall of mesh that covered the entire drive to be blocked was constructed, with a knocker line running around the
perimeter of the drive and across the area Concrete Canvas GCCM was to span. A 500mm x 500mm grid of prongs
to be used as fixings for the 13mm thick CC (CC13TM) was created by cutting and bending parts of the mesh. A door
was then installed in the mesh and secured with cable ties. The bulk roll of CC was installed from an elevated work
platform and lowered down, being secured on the prongs by pushing them through the CC13TM and bending the
prongs by 90 degrees. Any gaps around the perimeter of the wall were infilled with off-cuts of CC. The CC13TM was
then sprayed with water, and re-hydrated an hour later.

The vent wall was installed by 3 people in 3 days, as a trial to see if CC was a feasible option to create vent walls.
The project was deemed a success and it is likely that CC will be used for further vent walls within the mine.

*Geosynthetic Cementitious Composite Mat

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Door installed in the mesh Prongs created in the mesh

CC loaded onto the elevated work platform CC unrolled down the mesh

The prongs holding the CC to the mesh The finished wall

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TM The information contained herein is offered free of charge and is, to the best of our knowledge, accurate. However, since the circumstances and conditions in which such information and the products
discussed therein can be used may vary and are beyond our control, we make no warranty, express or implied, of merchantability, fitness or otherwise, or against patent infringement, and we accept
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PH,product.
RS, SL, SG, SD, SZ, SY, TR, TM, UA, GB, US, VN, ZM. This list is correct as of 01/09/2014 and will be updated periodically.
© Concrete
© Concrete Canvas
Canvas Ltd.
Ltd. 2014
2014
©
© Concrete
Concrete Canvas
Canvas Ltd.
Ltd. 2014
2014