The design and behaviour of crush pillars on the Merensky reef
Crush pillars are used as part of the stope support in intermediate depth tabular mining stopes. Crush pillar design should ensure that the pillars crush when formed at the mining face. This behaviour of the pillars is typically achieved when the pillars have a width to height ratio of approximately...
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University of Pretoria
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/58270 Du Plessis, M 2015, The design and behaviour of crush pillars on the Merensky reef, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/58270> |