{"id":1122303,"date":"2019-06-20T20:17:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T20:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=994401"},"modified":"2019-06-20T20:17:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T20:17:54","slug":"trench-cutter-sets-record-depth-at-rio-tinto-diamond-jv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1122303","title":{"rendered":"Trench cutter sets record depth at Rio Tinto diamond JV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the first 228 metre (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/im-mining.com\/2019\/06\/18\/bauer-completes-cutting-technology-milestone-at-rio-tinto-falcon-jv\/\" >the first 228 metre<\/a> bulk sample was successfully completed by a Bauer trench cutter at the FalCon diamond evaluation project in Saskatchewan, Canada, jointly owned by Rio Tinto and Star Diamond Corp.<\/p>\n<p>A depth of this magnitude has ever been reached using a trench cutter in a commercial application. Trench cutters are normally used in specialist foundation engineering, and this is an innovative use in the exploration and mining industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGroundbreaking, in more ways than one, this is a significant milestone in using proven technology for a very different application,\u201d comments Rio Tinto project director Gary Hodgkinson. <\/p>\n<p>Through the FalCon project, Rio Tinto and partner Star Diamond are seeking to determine the commercial viability of the Fort a la Corne kimberlite fields.<\/p>\n<p>The Bauer equipment was first tested in September 2018. After a long winter break, operation started at the end of May 2019. <\/p>\n<p>As part of this process, the kimberlite is washed and bagged into bulk bags for further evaluation in multiple steps by Rio Tinto, according to Bauer.<\/p>\n<p>Rio Tinto expects to execute additional bulk samples later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first 228 metre cutter bulk sample has been successfully completed at the FalCon diamond evaluation project in Saskatchewan, Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4,2857],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1122303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122304,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122303\/revisions\/1122304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1122303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1122303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1122303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}