| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 442 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Rock Slope Design Considerations -- Large-Scale Slope Designs-A Review of the State of the Art / E. Hoek; R.H. Rippere and P.F. Stacey -- Collecting and Using Geologic Structure Data for Slope Design / David E. Nicholas and Danny B. Sims -- Designing Catch Benches and Interramp Slopes / Thomas M. Ryan and Paul R. Pryor -- Managing and Analyzing Overall Pit Slopes / Richard D. Call; Paul F. Cicchini; Thomas M. Ryan and Ross. C. Barkley -- A Slope Height Versus Slope Angle Database / Jonny Sjöberg -- Rock-Mass Properties for Surface Mines / Evert Hoek and Antonio Karzulovic -- Time-Dependent Movement of Open-Pit Slopes / Zavis M. Zavodni -- The Role and Mitigation of Groundwater in Slope Stability / Lee C. Atkinson -- The Influence of Seismic Events on Slope Stability / Charles E. Glass -- Coupled Geomechanic-Hydrologic Approach to Slope Stability Based on Finite Elements / William G. Pariseau -- Practical Slope-Stability Analysis Using Finite-Difference Codes / Loren Lorig and Pedro Varona -- Blast Designs to Protect Pit Walls / Timothy N. Hagan and Brad Bulow -- Use of Blast Timing to Improve Slope Stability / Claude Cunningham -- Large_diameter and Deep-Hole Presplitting Techniques for Safe Wall Stability / Rodney Burke -- Case Studies in Rock Slope Stability -- The Role of the Geotechnical Group in an Open Pit: Chuquicamata Mine, Chile / Germán Flores and Antonio Karzulovic -- Slope Stability at Escondida Mine / Cristián Valdivia and Loren Lorig -- Slope Stability at Collahuasi / Graham Swan and Ricardo S. Sepulveda -- The Sur Sur Mine of Codelco's Andina Division / Reinaldo Apablaza; Emilio Farías; Ricardo Morales; Jaime Díaz and Antonio Karzulovic -- Design, Implementation, and Assessment of Open-Pit Slopes at Palabora over the Last 20 Years / Alan Sewart; Fanie Wessels and Susan Bird -- Slope Stability at Aznalcóllar / Jonny Sjöberg; John C. Sharp and David J. Malorey -- Slope Stability at Aitik / Jonny Sjöberg and Urban Norström -- Practical Rock-Slope Engineering Designs at Barrick Goldstrike / Robert Sharon -- Pit Slope Design at Orapa Mine / J. Jakubec; P.J. Terbrugge; A.R. Guest and Ramsden -- Slope Stability Assessment at the Main Cresson Mine / M. Pierce; T. Brandshaug and M. Ward -- Analysis of Stability Loss in Open-Pit Slopes and Assessment Principles for Hard, Tectonically Stressed Rock Masses / Anatoly A. Kozyrev; Sergei P. Reshetnyak; Victor A. Maltsev and Vadim V. Rybin -- Coal Mine Highwall Stability / Ben L. Seegmiller -- Stability of Waste Rock Embankments -- Site Selection, Characterization, and Assessment / P. Mark Hawley -- The Mechanism Controlling Angle-of-Repose Stability in Waste Rock Embankments / David B. Campbell -- Embankment Hydrology-Storage Water Controls / Gary R.E. Beckstad; John Slater; Neil van der Gugten and Andrzej Slawinski -- Embankment Hydrology and Unsaturated Flow in Waste Rock / G. Ward Wilson -- Operation and Monitoring Considerations from a British Columbia Mountain Terrain Perspective / Tim Eaton -- Reclamation and Surface Stabilization / René A. Renteria -- Observational Engineering for Open-Pit Geotechnics: A Case Study of Prediction Versus Performance for the Stability of a High Overburden Embankment over a Soft/Deep Soil Foundation at PT Freeport Indonesia's Grasberg Open-Pit Mine / W. Kevin Walker and Mark J. Johnson -- Construction and Operation of a Major Mined-Rock Disposal Facility at Elkview Coal Corporation, British Columbia / Brent K. Zeitz -- Steepened Spoil Slopes at Bridger Coal Company / William L. Gerhard -- Design Objectives for Mine Waste Rock Disposal Facilities at Phosphate Mines in Southeastern Idaho / Brian Buck -- Taillings and Heap Leaching -- Tailings Dam Stability: Essential Ingredients for Success / Michael Davies; Todd Martin and Peter Lighthall -- A Database of Quantitative Risks in Tailing Management / Dr. F. Oboni and Dr. I. Bruce -- Management and Operational Background the Three Tailings Dam Failures in South Africa/ Geoffrey Blight -- Tailings Basin Water Management / Donald E. Welch -- The Gold Ridge Mine Tailings Storage Facility: An Australian Case History / Mike Gowan and Glen Fergus -- Stability Analysis of a Waste Rock Dump of Great Height Founded over a Tailings Impoundment in a High Seismicity Area / Ramón Verdugo; Carolos Andrade; Sergio Barrera and José Lara -- Stability Issues Related to Tailing Storage and Heap Leach Facilities / Donald R. East and Julio E. Valera -- Case Study: Stability Analysis of the Cresson Valley Leach Facility (Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mining Company) / John F. Lupo and Terry Mandziak -- Radomiro Tomic Secondary Heap Leach Facility / Carlos Andrade; Edgar Bard O; Hugo Garrido and José Campaña -- Influence of the Direction of Ore Placement on the Stability of Ore Heaps on Geomembrane-Lined Pads / M.E. Smith and J.P. Giroud -- Index |
| Notes |
Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 30, 2012) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Strip mining.
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Slopes (Soil mechanics)
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Embankments.
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strip mining.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Mining.
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Embankments
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Slopes (Soil mechanics)
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Strip mining
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Mineração a céu aberto.
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Taludes.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hustrulid, W. A.
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McCarter, M. K. (M. Kim)
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Van Zyl, Dirk J. A.
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| ISBN |
9780873352956 |
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0873352955 |
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