Regional pillar monitoring at South Deep gold mine, South Africa

Regional pillars are designed to manage seismic energy emissions as well as combating rock falls and rock-bursts in deep level tabular stopes where extraction takes place over a large area. These emissions are as a result of high abutment stresses and high closure rates which in turn increase the En...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kwangwari, Fungai
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10539/17600