The Effect of Overburden and Horizontal Confining Stress State on Cave Mining Propagation

The mechanism of cave mining propagation still requires a better understanding to be attained outside the industry-accepted Duplancic conceptual model. While this model suggests a continuous damage profile to be followed when an orebody is undercut in cave mining operations, the research of Cumming-...

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Main Author: Schoeman, Nicholas Kyle
Other Authors: Kearsley, Elsabe P.
Language:en
Published: University of Pretoria 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78146
Schoeman, NK 2020, The Effect of Overburden and Horizontal Confining Stress State on Cave Mining Propagation, MEng Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78146