Evaluation of techniques for quarry slope stability assessment

Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science

Volumn 107, Issue SEPT-DEC, 1998, Pages

  Coggan, J S ^a   Stead, D ^b   Eyre, J M ^b  

^a Camborne School of Mines   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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