Stope Stability Research Articles

Data acquisition system for geotechnical instrumentation and design : CIM Bull V85, N956, Jan 1992, P43–47

Bulk mining has become the dominant mining method. The large stopes (steplike excavations) created must remain open and stable for several months. Continuous monitoring is necessary to provide information on ground response to mining and stope stability. The data provided from the monitoring is important for mine design and for safety planning. Manual instrumentation data collection is often dangerous and expensive, and in some underground monitoring situations, impossible. A low cost data acquisition system for mine wide monitoring has been developed. This 32 channel analog data acquisition and analysis system has a built in rock failure warning mechanism and is capable of receiving, processing, displaying and storing transmitted data remotely and automatically. 7 figs.

Pillar and stope stability assessment of the Niobec Mine using three-dimensional finite element techniques : Yu, Y S; Betournay, M C; Larocque, G E; Thiverge, S Proc 15th Canadian Rock Mechanics Symposium, Rock Engineering for Underground Excavations, 3–4 October 1988P99–108. Publ Toronto: Universityof Toronto, 1988

Pillar and stope stability assessment of the Niobec Mine using three-dimensional finite element techniques : Yu, Y S; Betournay, M C; Larocque, G E; Thiverge, S Proc 15th Canadian Rock Mechanics Symposium, Rock Engineering for Underground Excavations, 3–4 October 1988P99–108. Publ Toronto: Universityof Toronto, 1988

Koolan Island stope stability. Managing the deep pit option : Dunlop, J S Proc 8th AMIRA Technical Meeting, Advances in Blasting and Ground Support, Sydney, 8th October 1987P4.1–4.19. Publ Melbourne: AMIRA, 1987

Koolan Island stope stability. Managing the deep pit option : Dunlop, J S Proc 8th AMIRA Technical Meeting, Advances in Blasting and Ground Support, Sydney, 8th October 1987P4.1–4.19. Publ Melbourne: AMIRA, 1987

Use of three-dimensional stress analyses in predicting the stability of large open stopes

Use of three-dimensional stress analyses in predicting the stability of large open stopes