A Design Procedure for Determining the In Situ Stresses of Early Age Cemented Paste Backfill

Underground mining can be summarized as the removal of economically viable volumes of rock which creates underground voids. In order to optimize ore extraction, a material is used to backfill these openings prior to creating any adjacent openings. The use of cemented paste backfill (CPB), a mixtur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Veenstra, Ryan Llewellyn
Other Authors: Grabinsky, Murray
Language:en_ca
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/36027