Inter-ramp and bench design of open-pit mines: The portage pit case study

Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1601-1615

  Grenon, Martin ^a   Laflamme, Amélie Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acceptance criteria; Integrated design; Mine planning; Mining engineering; Slope stability

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA; DATABASE STRUCTURES; DESIGN CRITERION; INPUT DATAS; INTEGRATED DESIGNS; INTEGRATED METHODOLOGY; MINE PLANNING; MULTI-CRITERIA; OPEN PIT MINES; PIT SURFACE; POTENTIAL INSTABILITY; ROBUST ALGORITHM; SOFTWARE TOOL; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DOMAINS; SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPS;

DESIGN; MINING ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STABILITY CRITERIA;

SLOPE STABILITY;

ALGORITHM; DATABASE; DESIGN; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; OPEN PIT MINE; SLOPE STABILITY; SOFTWARE; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 80355123535     PISSN: 00083674     EISSN: 12086010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/t11-062     Document Type: Article

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