Geotechnical design for sublevel open stoping / Геомеханичекое обоснование открытой отработки подуступами

Underground metalliferous mining in Australia began in the mid-1840s at the copper and silver–lead mines in and around Kapunda and Burra in South Australia. Mining in the Victorian goldfields following the discovery of gold and the Gold Rush of 1851 was initially alluvial but soon evolved into the underground mining of deep leads and then quartz veins. By 1895, the 180 Mine at Bendigo was, at 970 m deep, the deepest mine in the world. The rich silver–lead–zinc orebodies of Broken Hill were discovered in 1883 and gold in Western Australia in 1892. By that time, Australia’s mining industry had already seen a number of boom-and-bust cycles. However, new discoveries have continued to be made and new mines developed up to the present day, with mining remaining a mainstay of Australia’s export economy, particularly in recent decades. <...>