Caving 2026

The Block and Sublevel Caving Conferences provide a platform for mining companies to be kept informed of the latest technological developments and caving research carried out by industry and academia. The Australian Centre for Geomechanics, a not-for-profit mining research organisation at The University of Western Australia, looks forward to hosting Caving 2026 in Mongolia.

Conference Themes

• Cave design and planning
• Cave fragmentation and flow
• Cave management and draw control
• Caving geomechanics
• Caving operations
• Geotechnical data and rock mass characterisation
• Instrumentation monitoring and data management
• Mine seismicity and inrush hazard
• Risk management and controls
• Rock mass preconditioning
• Subsidence