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Progressive Hangingwall Caving And Subsidence Prediction At The San Giovanni Mine, Italy
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Balia, R. (1990). Progressive Hangingwall Caving And Subsidence Prediction At The San Giovanni Mine, Italy. Ninth Conference on Ground Control Mining Proceedings (ICGCM) 9th
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Balia, R. (1990). Progressive Hangingwall Caving And Subsidence Prediction At The San Giovanni Mine, Italy. Ninth Conference on Ground Control Mining Proceedings (ICGCM) 9th
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Organization: International Conference on Ground Control in Mining
Pages: 9
Publication Date:
Jan 1, 1990
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| The upper part of the "Contatto Ovest" orebody, at the San Giovanni Pb-Zn sulphur mine (Sardinia, Italy), is mined by a sublevel caving method. With increasing mining depth, a progressive caving of the hanging wall and discontinuous subsidence occurs. The orebody, which is located very close to the contact between the Cambrian limestones and the Silurian shales, strikes NE-SW for more than 100 m and dips 75-80' NW. The limestone footwall is massive and strong while the hanging-wall consists of very weak shales. The mine considered is located near a town so that the observed subsidence effects must be taken into account for both stability of the nearby railway and houses and morphological and environmental impact. A limiting equilibrium analysis to predict the progress of hanging wall failure with increasing mining depth was used. A suitable computer program was developed for solving the model by a iterative procedure. The progressive hanging wall caving and its consequent superficial effects were predicted perfectly by means of the computer program used and later confirmed by a geophysical test (seismic tomography). Our study ends with a further analysis, carried out using the same procedure, which allows to have a different geometrical situation with the presence of a pillar to protect the mill area. |
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