Mining Publication: Seismicity and Stress Changes Subsequent to Destress Blasting at the Galena Mine and Implications for Stress Control Strategies

Keywords: Blasting Bumps

Original creation date: January 1993

Authors: FM Boler, PL Swanson

Report of Investigations - January 1993
Download PDF Document (1.57 MB)

NIOSHTIC2 Number: 10003155

U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, Report of Investigations 9448, 1993 Jan:1-21

The U.S. Bureau of Mines conducted research at the Galena Mine, Wallace, ID, with the aim of mitigating the effects of rock bursting. A digital seismic array and an array of borehole pressure cells had been installed near the site of a stope undergoing mining and periodic distressing.

Image of publication Seismicity and Stress Changes Subsequent to Destress Blasting at the Galena Mine and Implications for Stress Control Strategies
Report of Investigations - January 1993
Download PDF Document (1.57 MB)

NIOSHTIC2 Number: 10003155

U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, Report of Investigations 9448, 1993 Jan:1-21

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