Applicability of the Mathews Stability Method to Open Stope Stability Assessment at Olympic Dam Mine

Olympic Dam underground mine is located in South Australia approximately 520km north-north-west of Adelaide. The copper-gold-uranium deposit is extracted by open stope mining. The empirical Mathews stability method has been applied to open stope stability forecasting at Olympic Dam for the more than...

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Main Author: Sharp, Jacqueline Emily U'Ren
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Geological Sciences 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5520