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Title Guidelines for evaluating water in pit slope stability / edited by John Read and Geoff Beale
Published Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2013

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Contents Cover; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; 1 Scope of LOP projecthydrogeological studies; 2 General impact of water onmining; 2.1 Water management issues; 2.2 Consequences of mining below thewater table; 2.3 General goals for the water-controlprogram; 3 Cost of managing water in slopestability; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Cost-benefit analysis; 3.3 An example of managing earlydewatering costs; 3.4 An example of large-scale cost-benefitanalysis for pit slope depressurisation; 4 Goals of managing water inslope stability; 4.1 Opportunities; 4.2 Passive pore pressure control
4.3 Active pore pressure control4.4 Making the decision to implement anactive program; 5 General planning for mine watermanagement; 1FRAMEWORK: ASSESSING WATER IN SLOPE STABILITY; 1.1 Fundamental parameters; 1.1.1 Porosity and storage properties; 1.1.2 Permeability and transportproperties; 1.1.3 Pore pressure; 1.1.4 Head and pressure conditions; 1.1.5 Controls on pore pressure; 1.1.6 The role of water pressure in slopestability; 1.2 The hydrogeological model; 1.2.1 Basic regimes; 1.2.2 Geology; 1.2.3 Hydrology; 1.2.4 Hydraulic controls; 1.3 Managing water in open pitmines
1.3.1 Key factors affecting the water managementprogram1.3.2 General mine dewatering; 1.3.3 Pit slope depressurisation andgeneral mine dewatering; 1.3.4 Steps required for implementing aslope depressurisation program; 1.3.5 Mine water balance; 1.3.6 Mine closure considerations; 2SITE CHARACTERISATION; 2.1 Planning field programs; 2.1.1 Introduction; 2.1.2 Scale of the investigation; 2.1.3 Early-stage investigation; 2.1.4 Integrating the design process; 2.1.5 Required effort based on projectlevel; 2.1.6 Planning for a Greenfield minedevelopment; 2.1.7 Planning for a Brownfield sitedevelopment
2.1.8 Environmental baseline studies2.1.9 Water management practices duringthe field investigation program; 2.2 Implementing field programs; 2.2.1 Background; 2.2.2 Drilling methods; 2.2.3 'Piggy-backing' of data collection; 2.2.4 Dedicated hydrogeological drillingprograms; 2.2.5 Single-hole testing methods; 2.2.6 Monitoring installations; 2.2.7 Downhole geophysical logging; 2.2.8 Cross-hole and multi-hole testing; 2.2.9 Water quality testing; 2.2.10 Pilot drainage trials; 2.3 Presentation, analysis andstorage of data; 2.3.1 Types of data; 2.3.2 Display of time-series monitoringdata
2.3.3 Analysis of one-off data2.3.4 Levels of data analysis for a typicaldevelopment program; 2.3.5 Databases; 3 PREPARING A CONCEPTUALHYDROGEOLOGICAL MODEL; 3.1 Introduction; 3.1.1 Background; 3.1.2 What is a conceptual model?; 3.1.3 Development of a sector-scale model; 3.1.4 Available data; 3.2 Components of the conceptualmodel; 3.2.1 Components of a larger scaleconceptual model; 3.2.2 The 'A-B-C-D' concept of fractureflow; 3.2.3 Components of the sector-scaleconceptual model; 3.3 Research outcomes from Diavik; 3.3.1 Background; 3.3.2 Diavik site setting; 3.3.3 Effects of blasting
Summary Guidelines for Evaluating Water in Pit Slope Stability is a comprehensive account of the hydrogeological procedures that should be followed when performing open pit slope stability design studies. Created as an outcome of the Large Open Pit (LOP) project, an international research and technology transfer project on the stability of rock slopes in open pit mines, this book expands on the hydrogeological model chapter in the LOP project's previous book Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design (Read & Stacey, 2009; CSIRO Publishing). The book comprises six sections which outline the latest technology and best practice procedures for hydrogeological investigations. The sections cover: the framework used to assess the effect of water in slope stability; how water pressures are measured and tested in the field; how a conceptual hydrogeological model is prepared; how water pressures are modelled numerically; how slope depressurisation systems are implemented; and how the performance of a slope depressurisation program is monitored and reconciled with the design. Guidelines for Evaluating Water in Pit Slope Stability offers slope design practitioners a road map that will help them decide how to investigate and treat water pressures in pit slopes. It provides guidance and essential information for mining and civil engineers, geotechnical engineers, engineering geologists and hydrogeologists involved in the investigation, design and construction of stable rock slopes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Strip mining -- Planning
Strip mining -- Design and construction
Slopes (Soil mechanics)
Landslides.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mining.
Landslides
Slopes (Soil mechanics)
Strip mining -- Planning
Form Electronic book
Author Read, John Russell Lee, 1939- editor
Beale, Geoff, editor
CSIRO (Australia)
ISBN 9780643108370
0643108378
9780643108363
064310836X
1306208238
9781306208239
9781523108558
152310855X