Guidelines for evaluating water in pit slope stability / Рекомендации по оценке устойчивости бортов карьера от воды

Guidelines for Evaluating Water in Pit Slope Stability (the ‘Water Book’) is an outcome of the Large Open Pit (LOP) project, an international research and technology transfer project on the stability of rock slopes in open pit mines. It is a follow-up to Chapter 6 in the LOP project’s previous publication Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design (Read & Stacey, 2009), which outlined how the hydrogeological model is developed and applied in the design of rock slopes. It describes the outcomes of hydrogeological research performed by the LOP project since 2009 and has the objective of providing slope design practitioners with a road map that that will help them decide how to investigate and manage water pressures in pit slopes.
The LOP project was initiated in April 2005 and is managed on behalf of CSIRO Australia by John Read, CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering, Brisbane, Australia. Since 2005 the project has been funded by the following mining companies: Anglo American plc; AngloGold Ashanti Limited; Barrick Gold Corporation; BHP Chile; BHPBilliton Innovation Pty Limited; Corporacion Naciónal de Cobre Del Chile (‘Codelco’); Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi SCM (‘Collahuasi’); De Beers Group Services (Pty); Debswana Diamond Company; Newcrest Mining Limited; Newmont Australia Limited; Ok Tedi Mining Limited; Technological Resources Pty Ltd (the RioTinto Group); Teck Resources Limited; Vale; and Xstrata Copper Queensland. Debswana and Collahuasi ceased to be sponsors in 2010 and 2011 respectively, and Xstrata Copper Queensland ceased to be a sponsor in 2012; AngloGold Ashanti and Ok Tedi Mining joined the project in 2010, and Teck joined in 2011.<...>