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Narrow vein mining operations form a relatively small but vital part of our international mining industry. For example, many historical gold fields are now being reworked or redeveloped, including those of Central Victoria, Hill End and Charters Towers in Australia. The skills and expertise required to manage these natural resources are arguably highly specialised, and can include dealing with issues of complex geology and geometry, a high nugget effect, high planned and additional dilution, the need for high selectivity, high stress conditions, low tonnes per vertical metre, coarse gold and/or complex metallurgy.

The purpose of this conference is to bring together those involved in narrow vein exploitation, including geologists, and geotechnical and mining engineers. The future of narrow vein mining depends upon both highly skilled and professional geoscientists and engineers, and on developing innovative methods for evaluation and exploitation. Solutions are required for the unique challenges that this style of mineralisation presents.