BASF - Ground Control Techniques and Material for Safe Mining

BASF is a world leader in the provision of reliable, customer oriented product solutions focused on your needs in the tunneling and mining industries. We offer a vast array of safe mining equipment, ground control techniques and materials. The range of products and services we offer include: sprayed concrete, rock bolting, Thin Spray-on Liners (TSL), injection - ground consolidation and cavity filling, backfill, shaft and roadway concrete, corrosion and abrasion, ventilation, service-technical support and training.

Safe mining systems

BASF knows that creating a safe mining environment for efficient production is an absolute necessity for any mine operator. With today’s vast array of increasingly sophisticated equipment, ground control techniques and materials, BASF continues to support mining partnerships by developing many of the technological advancements both in products and equipment that directly enhance safety and improve production in the mine environment.

Our mining experience covers North America, Canada, South Africa, South America, Australia and Europe. We are familiar with the needs of all underground mining systems, offering the following key tools.

Admixtures for sprayed concrete

Admixtures for sprayed concrete, concrete lining and roadways as well as accelerators, stabilisers, water reducers, fibres and curing systems. BASF offers the following key ingredients that allow durable sprayed concrete structures to be constructed successfully:

• MEYCO® SA range of alkali-free liquid and powder accelerators providing excellent early and long-term strength and durability, a family of products developed to suit your site conditions and compatibility to local cements
• GLENIUM® range of state-of-the-art superplasticisers giving you very low w/c coupled with high and extended workability
• DELVO® Crete hydration control admixtures designed to prolong the workability of your concrete mix to allow flexible site logistics
• MEYCO® TCC bond improving admixtures added at the batching plant to internally cure the sprayed concrete immediately after spraying
• A range of other additives such as silica fume, colloidal silica, steel and polypropylene fibres

MEYCO® equipment sprayed concrete pumps and robotic manipulators

MEYCO® equipment - the world renowned sprayed concrete pumps and robotic manipulators, with robust mine-worthy chassis for use in confined space, such as the MEYCO® Cobra and Mamba, and specialty equipment like the MEYCO® Altera.

MASTERSEAL® - thin spray-on liners

Our MASTERSEAL® range of Thin Spray-on Liners (TSL’s), often referred to as «Superskin», for immediate, tough, efficient rock support under challenging environments.

Backfill products

Backfill products to improve the efficiency of mine operations, be it for paste, cemented rockfill or hydraulic fill.

Anchor grouting

Anchor grouting including cement cartridges, cement grout additives and complete bagged products for a complete range in anchor grouts.

Ground and water control systems

Ground and water control systems including the widest range of injection grouts.

Corrosion and abrasion control systems

Corrosion and abrasion control systems suitable for metallurgical processing plants and ore passes respectively.

Service underground

Service underground is what makes us different. We have experienced mining personnel in your region to advise and assist you with all our product systems.