Design guidelines : underhand cut and fill cemented paste backfill sill beams

Difficult ground conditions negatively affect both mine production and the safety of underground workers. Underhand cut-and-fill mining is a potential solution to these issues. Discussions with mine sites revealed the use of sill beams in underhand cut-and-fill mining is not optimized. Optimizati...

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Main Author: Hughes, Paul B.
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/47089