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Differential wall rock movements associated with rock bursts, Lucky Friday Mine, Coeur d'Alene Mining District, Idaho, USA.

White BG; Whyatt JK

Rock Mechanics for Industry - Proceedings of the 37th U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium, Vail, Colorado, June 6-9, 1999. Rotterdam, Netherlands: A. A. Balkema Publishers, 1999 Jun; :1051-1059

20028122

Various methods of monitoring slip movements on bedding planes, as well as examination of rock burst damage in stopes, suggests that rock bursts in the Lucky Friday Mine are closely associated with these movements. Slip displacements along bedding simultaneously reduce the physical dimensions of stopes and increase compressive stress along stope margins. Such changes, in turn, contribute directly to rock bursts and the sudden failure of volumes of rock and cemented sandfill surrounding stopes. The distribution of seismicity and several mining-induced and premining structures resemble those described in South African gold mines. These suggest fundamental similarities in seismic sources and mechanisms of rock burst damage

Mine-shafts; Mining-industry; Ground-stability; Ground-control; Injury-prevention; Safety-measures; Safety-research; Structural-analysis; Statistical-analysis; Accident-prevention; Accident-potential; Rock-bursts; Analytical-models; Analytical-processes

19990601

Conference/Symposia Proceedings

Amadei B; Kranz RL; Scott GA; Smeallie PH

1999

9789058090522

SRL

Rock Mechanics for Industry - Proceedings of the 37th U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium, Vail, Colorado, June 6-9, 1999

WA; MN; ID; CO