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Dr. Murray Grabinsky

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Canada Paterson & Cooke

Biography

- 30-year academic career involving: fieldwork to characterize Cemented Paste Backfill properties and behaviour during backfilling, curing, and subsequent exposure to ongoing mining activities; advanced laboratory element testing to determine engineering properties; numerically modeling backfill barricades, sidewall exposure, undercut exposure, and response to rock mass closure - a decade of sub-consulting work as a numerical and analytical modeling specialist on mine backfill problems - recently joined Paterson & Cooke as a Backfill Geomechanics Subject Matter Expert

Publications by Year
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Elastic arching effects in tall Cemented Paste Backfilled stopes
Murray Grabinsky Paterson & Cooke
Technical Session
Geomechanics
Minefill 2024
Strength gains versus effective stress development in Williams mine Cemented Paste Backfill
Murray Grabinsky Paterson & Cooke
Amin Jafari University of Toronto
Mohammad Shahsavari Worley
Technical Session
Geomechanics
Minefill 2024
Lessons Learned from Tight or Blind Filling Induced Barricade Failures
Ben Thompson Paterson & Cooke Canada
Ryan Veenstra Newmont
David Counter Glencore
Murray Grabinsky Paterson & Cooke
+1 more
Technical Session
Geomechanics
Minefill 2024
Progressive failure of undercut Cemented Paste Backfilled stopes: the problem with Mitchell’s sill mat analysis
Murray Grabinsky Paterson & Cooke
Technical Session
Geomechanics
Minefill 2024
In situ Measurements of an Undercut Backfilled Stope and its Implications for New Practical Design
Murray Grabinsky Paterson & Cooke
Mohammadamin Jafari
Louis-Philippe Gélinas Agnico Eagle
Wei Wei Agnico Eagle
+1 more
Innovation and best practices in Mining: Operations and Processing Technical Session
Advances in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering: Geomechanical Design
CIM CONNECT 2025 Montréal