Failure of rock mass in deep underground excavations could be attributed to a broad range
of performance malfunction, from plastic yielding of rock, generation of macro cracks on the …

The assessment of the stope stability is of great importance in the underground mine design
process. The instability of stopes leads to serious economic and safety problems in mining …

Determining stability, quantifying planned dilution, and estimating the potential dilution
associated with hangingwall overbreak are critical in the process of stope design in sublevel …

The extraction of shallow ore deposits using underground mining methods rather than open
pit mining is not uncommon nowadays, especially with the increased environmental …

Assessing the stability of stopes is essential in open stope mine design as unstable
hangingwalls and footwalls lead to sloughing, unplanned stope dilution, and safety …

Purpose. Studying the stress-strain state of the rock mass under the open pit, taking into
account the change in the open-pit bottom width in order to reveal the geomechanical state …

In deep underground mines, a successful development plan to exploit deeper mining levels
is highly dependent on adequate consideration of the magnitude and orientation of situ …

Sub-level open stopes with delayed backfill are being used to extract massive, tabular, and
steeply dipping ore bodies for increased productivity. Crown pillars in the orebody divide …

Stope design is a core discipline within mining engineering. This study analyzes the current
state-of-the-art of stope design through a survey addressed to mining industry professionals …

We have proposed a methodology to assess the robustness of underground tunnels against
potential failure. This involves developing vulnerability functions for various qualities of rock …