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Evaluating the Efficiency of Room and Pillar Mining in Greece using RS3
- May, 11, 2023
- Mining News On Research / Academia News On Software News On Projects / Industry
- Canada, Toronto
- Authored by: Rocscience Inc
Underground mining of unexploited coal reserves is on the rise in Greece, due to its heavy dependency on lignite resources for electricity. The room and pillar approach for underground mining is a co...
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Open-pit coal mine collapse in China
- Feb, 22, 2023
- Deep Excavations Erosion Landslides Mining Slope Stability
- China, Alxa League
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
An open-pit coal mine collapsed in Alxa League in Inner Mongolia, China, on Wednesday the 22nd of February. A 180-meter-tall slope failure caused the mine to be buried under a very large volume of...
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EV's: Driving Demand for Lithium
- Feb, 17, 2023
- Mining Slope Stability Analysis News On Software News On Products & Services News On Research / Academia
- Authored by: Rocscience Inc
I’m sure in recent weeks you’ve opened your favourite news source and seen a headline mentioning Electric or Hybrid cars. Whether it’s news about Tesla’s latest factory or governmental policies aimed...
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GeoStudio 2022.1 new release is here!
- Oct, 27, 2022
- Dam Engineering Deep Excavations Earth Retaining Structures Geoenvironmental Engineering Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Earthquake Reconnaissance Ground Improvement Groundwater & Seepage Mining Slope Stability Road Embankments News On Software
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
In the latest GeoStudio version, you’ll notice improvements to speed up your geotechnical 3D workflow. Key features and functionality are implemented to improve your 3D modelling experience and to en...
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Slide3 and RS2 : The Tools of Choice for Back-Analysis of an Open Pit Mine Highwall Failure
The Methodology Step 2 – Iterative calibration of the base case model reproduced the observed failure characteristics. Several data sources and assumptions were used in the preparation of the base (...
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Rocscience | Geotechnical Software for Open Pit Mining
Surface mining, whether you call it open pit, opencast, or open cut is a common method of extracting minerals like coal, iron, gold, and copper from shallow depths below the ground. Slope stability a...
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3D Slope Stability Analysis of an Open Pit Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Jul, 08, 2022
- Mining Slope Stability Analysis Other Geotechnical News On Software
- Authored by: Rocscience Inc
By Thiago Bretas and Felipe Vilela, BVP Engenharia. Two-dimensional (2D) limit equilibrium analysis is the most common method of slope stability analysis in geotechnical engineering practice. That’s...
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Rocscience's Year in Review - 2021
- Jan, 11, 2022
- News On Software Finite Element / Finite Difference Slope Stability Risk & Reliability Mining Slope Stabilization Slope Stability Analysis Geomorphology Earth Retaining Structures Retaining Walls
- Authored by: Rocscience Inc
2021 has been a spectacular year for Rocscience! Read the annual review below and get a sneak peek into what is coming in 2022! Q1...
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Column Resolution Impacts on 3D Open Pit Stability
- Nov, 02, 2021
- Slope Stability Analysis Slope Stability Mining Landslides Engineering Geology News On Publications News On Products & Services News On Software
- Authored by: George Zalachoris
In this paper, Bentley Systems specialists Marina Trevizolli, Murray Fredlund, and Hai Hua Lu illustrate the importance of using 3D limit equilibrium (LE) analysis for complex open pit sidewalls, w...
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39 miners trapped underground and rescued in Ontario, Canada
- Oct, 07, 2021
- Mining News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Canada, Greater Sudbury
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
39 workers were trapped in an underground mine in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada but all of them were eventually rescued. The Totten mine, owned and operated by Vale, a multinational firm from Brazil, op...
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