scholarly journals Understanding the Bigger Picture - Interpretation of Geological Structure in Open Pit Rock Slope Stability

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Oldcorn ◽  
R Seago
Keyword(s):  
Slope Stability ◽  
Rock Slope ◽  
Geological Structure ◽  
Rock Slope Stability ◽  
Open Pit

Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Read ◽  
Peter Stacey
Keyword(s):  
Slope Stability ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Rock Slope ◽  
Rock Slope Stability ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Financial Return ◽  
Open Pit Mines ◽  
Management Procedures ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Slope Design

Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design is a comprehensive account of the open pit slope design process. Created as an outcome of the Large Open Pit (LOP) project, an international research and technology transfer project on rock slope stability in open pit mines, this book provides an up-to-date compendium of knowledge of the slope design processes that should be followed and the tools that are available to aid slope design practitioners. This book links innovative mining geomechanics research into the strength of closely jointed rock masses with the most recent advances in numerical modelling, creating more effective ways for predicting rock slope stability and reliability in open pit mines. It sets out the key elements of slope design, the required levels of effort and the acceptance criteria that are needed to satisfy best practice with respect to pit slope investigation, design, implementation and performance monitoring. Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design comprises 14 chapters that directly follow the life of mine sequence from project commencement through to closure. It includes: information on gathering all of the field data that is required to create a 3D model of the geotechnical conditions at a mine site; how data is collated and used to design the walls of the open pit; how the design is implemented; up-to-date procedures for wall control and performance assessment, including limits blasting, scaling, slope support and slope monitoring; and how formal risk management procedures can be applied to each stage of the process. This book will assist in meeting stakeholder requirements for pit slopes that are stable, in regards to safety, ore recovery and financial return, for the required life of the mine.

Footwall Rock Slope Stability Evaluations at Nchanga Open Pit Mine, Zambia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenping Gong ◽  
Victor Mwango Bowa ◽  
Chao Zhao ◽  
Zhan Cheng ◽  
Liang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Slope Stability ◽  
Rock Slope ◽  
Open Pit Mine ◽  
Rock Slope Stability ◽  
Open Pit

Analysis of Rock Slope Stability on the Basis of Limit Equilibrium Method

2013 ◽  
Vol 711 ◽  
pp. 333-337
Author(s):  
Jun Wang ◽  
Hong Guang Ji
Keyword(s):  
Slope Stability ◽  
Rock Slope ◽  
Limit Equilibrium ◽  
Limit Equilibrium Method ◽  
Rock Slope Stability ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Local Instability ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
Limit Equilibrium Theory

To analyze the rock slope stability of open pit, limit equilibrium theory is used and the safety factor of slope stability is calculated by Geo-slope software. Then, the region where local instability or overall instability may occur is determined. Finally, some optimization plans and appropriate protective measures are suggested, providing a theoretical basis for engineering practice.

The Three-Dimensional (3D) Numerical Stability Analysis of Hyttemalmen Open-Pit

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 609-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Cała ◽  
Michał Kowalski ◽  
Agnieszka Stopkowicz
Keyword(s):  
Rock Mass ◽  
Stability Analysis ◽  
Slope Stability ◽  
Water Table ◽  
Factor Of Safety ◽  
Rock Slope ◽  
Numerical Calculations ◽  
Rock Slope Stability ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Small Scale

Abstract The purpose of this paper was to perform the 3D numerical calculations allowing slope stability analysis of Hyttemalmen open pit (location Kirkenes, Finnmark Province, Norway). After a ramp rock slide, which took place in December 2010, as well as some other small-scale rock slope stability problems, it proved necessary to perform a serious stability analyses. The Hyttemalmen open pit was designed with a depth up to 100 m, a bench height of 24 m and a ramp width of 10 m. The rock formation in the iron mining district of Kirkenes is called the Bjornevaten Group. This is the most structurally complicated area connected with tectonic process such as folding, faults and metamorphosis. The Bjornevaten Group is a volcano-sedimentary sequence. Rock slope stability depends on the mechanical properties of the rock, hydro-geological conditions, slope topography, joint set systems and seismic activity. However, rock slope stability is mainly connected with joint sets. Joints, or general discontinuities, are regarded as weak planes within rock which have strength reducing consequences with regard to rock strength. Discontinuities within the rock mass lead to very low tensile strength. Several simulations were performed utilising the RocLab (2007) software to estimate the gneiss cohesion for slopes of different height. The RocLab code is dedicated to estimate rock mass strength using the Hoek-Brown failure criterion. Utilising both the GSI index and the Hoek-Brown strength criterion the equivalent Mohr-Coulomb parameters (cohesion and angle of internal friction) can be calculated. The results of 3D numerical calculations (with FLA3D code) show that it is necessary to redesign the slope-bench system in the Hyttemalmen open pit. Changing slope inclination for lower stages is recommended. The minimum factor of safety should be equal 1.3. At the final planned stage of excavation, the factor of safety drops to 1.06 with failure surface ranging through all of the slopes. In the case of a slope angle 70° for lower stages, FS = 1.26, which is not enough to provide slope stability. Another series of calculations were therefore performed taking water table lowering into consideration, which increases the global safety factor. It was finally evaluated, that for a water table level of 72 m the factor of safety equals 1.3, which is enough to assure global open-pit stability.

Assessment of the rock slope stability of Fushun West Open-pit Mine

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Zhang ◽  
Tianhong Yang ◽  
Lianchong Li ◽  
Jianqing Bu ◽  
Tianliang Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Slope Stability ◽  
Rock Slope ◽  
Open Pit Mine ◽  
Rock Slope Stability ◽  
Open Pit

scholarly journals Probability Methods for Stability Design of Open Pit Rock Slopes: An Overview

Geosciences ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 319
Author(s):  
Musah Abdulai ◽  
Mostafa Sharifzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Stability Analysis ◽  
Slope Stability ◽  
Probabilistic Analysis ◽  
Rock Slope ◽  
Limit Equilibrium ◽  
Probability Of Failure ◽  
Slope Stability Analysis ◽  
Rock Slope Stability ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Rational Approach

The rock slope stability analysis can be performed using deterministic and probabilistic approaches. The deterministic analysis based on the safety concept factor uses fixed representative values for each input parameter involved without considering the variability and uncertainty of the rock mass properties. Probabilistic analysis with the calculation of probability of failure instead of the factor of safety against failure is emerging in practice. Such analyses offer a more rational approach to quantify risk by incorporating uncertainty in the input variables and evaluating the probability of the failure of a system. In rock slope engineering, uncertainty and variability involve a large scatter of geo-structural data and varied geomechanical test results. There has been extensive reliability analysis of rock slope stability in the literature, and different methods of reliability are being employed for assessment of the probability of failure and the reliability of a slope. Probabilistic approaches include Monte Carlo simulation (MCS), the point estimate method (PEM), the response surface method (RSM), first- and second-order reliability methods (FORMs and SORMs), and the first-order second-moment method (FOSM). Although these methods may be complicated, they provide a more complete definition of risk. Probabilistic slope stability analysis is an option in most commercial software; however, the use of this method is not common in practice. This paper provides an overview of the literature on some of the main probabilistic reliability-based methods available for the design of the rock slope in open pit mining. To demonstrate its applicability, the paper investigates the stability of a rock slope in an open pit mine in the Goldfields region, Western Australia. Two different approaches were adopted: deterministic stability analysis using two-dimensional limit equilibrium and finite element shear strength reduction methods using SLIDE and RS2 software, respectively, and probabilistic analysis by applying the MCS and RSM methods in the limit equilibrium method. In this example, the slope stability analysis was performed using the Spencer method with Cuckoo search optimization to locate the critical slip surface. The results obtained were compared and commented on.

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