Media Interviews
At ThinkRox Inc., we have over 40 years of experience in consulting, research, and teaching mining engineering and geomechanics on four continents.
During that time, Professor Fidelis Suorineni (Ph.D.)has provided expert interviews to many media outlets, published in many academic inter journals and international conferences in which he also serves as a reviewer or member of editorial boards, as well as a consultant to mining and civil construction companies (including consulting companies) internationally. He has given invited lectures in several countries including Japan, Poland, China, Ghana, Turkey, South Korea, Canada, Australia, and Kazakhstan.
Prof. Suorineni is a two-time winner of the Douglas Hay Medal awarded by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining in London for best papers published in Mining Technology.
Below is a selection of video and print interviews he has done over the years.
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Videos:
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Invention of the Combined-Compression and Shear Test (C-CAST) System: UNSW TV Interview |
Eurasian Higher Education Leaders' Forum 2019 (EHELF 2019), Breakout Session 4: Lifelong Learning - Never Stop asking; Moderator |
Articles:
The C-CAST IP:
Combined compression and shear testing system (C-CASTS) for determination of intact rock properties for design of inclined pillars in underground mines.
Stronger and Safer Support Pillars for Underground Mines.
This invention is a complete diagnosis and design system for testing the structural integrity of bedrock core samples at specific orientations in underground mines and configuring the strongest and safest design and placement for inclined pillars.
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Ghana News Agency: 2023 - Ghana needs meritorious, pragmatic, honest people in mining sector - Professor Fidelis Suorineni
Accra, Oct. 25, GNA – Professor Fidelis Suorineni, School of Mining and Geosciences, Nazarbayev University, has called on Ghanaians to uphold the values of merit, pragmatism, and honesty to ensure the proper functioning of the minerals and mining sector.
He noted that the country could boast of excellent Ghanaian mining engineers across the world, well-established regulatory institutions and strong legal frameworks in the minerals and mining sector.
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The Manufacturer 2021 Interview by Fleur Doidge: A new perspective on the mining industry
Posted on 18 Mar 2022 by The Manufacturer
Fleur Doidge examines a different take on the mining industry’s commitment to sustainability.
Mining of many minerals essential to manufacturing is answering a pan-industry need for environmental accountability, including on emissions. Raw materials extraction is making great strides towards better, more sustainable production of resources so we can all tread lighter on the earth – as Professor Fidelis Suorineni, Nazarbayev University School of Mining and Geosciences. “The public often wrongly thinks mining is destroying the environment and doesn’t care, although our civilisation depends on mining in so many ways,” Suorineni says.
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From WeProject.media: A professor from Canada about students, taxi drivers and steaks in Kazakhstan
About the move: I first visited Kazakhstan in 2017 to give a speech at an event in Astana. Then I was a professor at one of the universities in Australia. Since my stay in this country was ending, I was thinking about returning to Canada. I planned to no longer work at the university. But when I was offered a position at Nazarbayev University, I accepted the challenge. On January 22, 2018, I came to Kazakhstan to work.
I was offered a position at Nazarbayev University and I accepted the challenge
I love teaching and have been doing it for 30 years. My specialty is mining engineering.
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Tecnología Minera Magazine - Collaboration in "Blockcaving" report (2020c):
Block caving: The deep mining method of the future?
More and more mining companies are using big data and block caving to open up a wealth of possibilities. Professor Fidelis Suorineni, from the School of Mining and Geosciences in Kazakhstan, explains the use and potential of this method.
Block caving is a mining method that involves undermining an ore body and then allowing it to collapse under its own weight,
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The Mine magazine:
Inside block caving: the deep mining method of the future?
More and more mining companies are using big data and block caving to open up a wealth of new discoveries. Yoana Cholteeva speaks with Professor Fidelis Suorineni from the Nazarbayev University School of Mining and Geosciences in Kazakhstan about the use and potential of the block caving method.
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Modern Ghana
‘Fight For More Research Allowance Not Books’
Research Support for lecturers in Ghanaian Universities
LECTURERS IN public universities in Ghana have been encouraged to put pressure on government to invest more in Research Development(R&D) rather than fighting for meagre book allowances.
Ghana is ranked among countries that spend less than one percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on research, joining debt-ridden countries like Greece, which does not prioritize R&D as part of the development of her educational sector.
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Peace FM Online
Poverty Promotes Illegal Mining
The Chairman of the Mine Geotechnical Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Australia, Prof Fidelis Suorineni, has said the battle to clamp down on illegal mining would not be won if better alternative solutions were not introduced to those involved.
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Creamer Media's Mining Weekly:
Australian universities advance use of VR technologies in mining
Australian universities continue to promote virtual reality (VR) technologies to improve safety, mine design and operational efficiencies in the industry.
University of New South Wales (UNSW) mine geotechnical engineering chair Professor Fidelis Suorineni tells Mining Weekly that a VR prototype was constructed and deployed in 1999 at the university as a proof of concept, which comprised a large flat screen for group interaction and a touch screen for trainee interaction, as well as real machine controls and a joystick for manoeuvring in the simulated environment.
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Modern Ghana:
KNUST Biz School To Host First AREF Conference
THE BUSINESS School of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), in collaboration with African Finance and Economic Consult (AFEC) and the University of Witwatersrand Business School, South Africa, will organize the first ever African Review of Economics and Finance (AREF).
The programme, scheduled to take place between August 11-12, 2016, will feature prominent figures and experts in the field of economic and finance from Africa and across the globe, including Professor at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana, Prof. Augustin Fosu and Professor and Chair of Mine Geotechnical Engineering at the School of Mining Engineering, UNSW Australia, Prof. Fidelis T. Suorineni.
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Australia Mining: The new building blocks of block caving
The new building blocks of block caving
As the level of higher grade, easier to mine ores declines, many underground mining operations are looking at new ways of accessing their ore in the quickest, safest, and most cost effective way possible.
Block Caving is being looked to as one method of bulk mining to access these ores, as it is recognised as one of the most economic underground mass mining methods to extract deep, low grade, massive orebodies that have regular footprints and large vertical extents.
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CLIMATE CRISIS
How automation can transform mining
Mining is a traditionally analogue business. After all, the industry’s symbol worldwide is a hammer and pick. Yet, despite the sector’s antiquated reputation, some major mining companies are taking a progressive stance and proving digitization and automation can achieve much better operational outcomes.
Known as Mine 4.0, the industry is seeing digital transformation creep into everything from trucks, drills and trains to back-office processes, such as procurement and supply chain logistics.
Improving efficiencies with automation
Miners have very little control over the revenue side of their business, as the global commodities crash of 2014 to 2015, when prices plunged by more than 30 per cent, and indeed the coronavirus epidemic demonstrate. Therefore, lowering costs and improving efficiency in the industry’s three biggest areas of expenditure – wages, energy, and materials and supplies – has become paramount for shoring up the bottom line.
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