Preface

Introduction

SECTION 1 ROCK SLOPE DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS

Large-Scale Slope Designs---A Review of the State of the Art

E. Hoek

K.H. Rippere

P.F. Stacey

Collecting and Using Geologic Structure Data for Slope Design

David E. Nicholas

Danny B. Sims

Designing Catch Benches and Interramp Slopes

Thomas M. Ryan

Paul R. Pryor

Managing and Analyzing Overall Pit Slopes

Richard D. Call

Paul F. Cicchini

Thomas M. Ryan

Ross C. Barkley

A Slope Height Versus Slope Angle Database

Jonny Sjoberg

Rock-Mass Properties for Surface Mines

Evert Hoek

Antonio Karzulovic

Failure Mechanisms for High Slopes in Hard Rock

Jonny Sjoberg

Time-Dependent Movements of Open-Pit Slopes

Zavis M. Zavodni

The Role and Mitigation of Groundwater in Slope Stability

Lee C. Atkinson

The Influence of Seismic Events on Slope Stability

Charles E. Glass

Coupled Geomechanic-Hydrologic Approach to Slope Stability Based on Finite Elements

William G. Pariseau

Practical Slope-Stability Analysis Using Finite-Difference Codes

Loren Lorig

Pedro Varona

Blast Designs to Protect Pit Walls

Timothy N. Hagan

Brad Bulow

Use of Blast Timing to Improve Slope Stability

Claude Cunningham

Large-Diameter and Deep-Hole Presplitting Techniques for Safe Wall Stability

Rodney Burke

SECTION 2 CASE STUDIES IN ROCK SLOPE STABILITY

The Role of the Geotechnical Group in an Open Pit: Chuquicamata Mine, Chile

German Flores

Antonio Karzulovic

Slope Stability at Escondida Mine

Cristian Valdivia

Loren Lorig

Slope Stability at Collahuasi

Graham Swan

Richardo S. Sepulveda

The Sur Sur Mine of Codelco's Andina Division

Reinaldo Apablaza

Emilio Farias

Ricardo Morales

Jaime Diaz

Antonio Karzulovic

Design, Implementation, and Assessment of Open-Pit Slopes at Palabora over the Last 20 Years

Alan Stewart

Fanie Wessels

Susan Bird

Slope Stability at Aznalcollar

Jonny Sjoberg

John C. Sharp

David J. Malorey

Slope Stability at Aitik

Jonny Sjoberg

Urban Norstrom

Practical Rock-Slope Engineering Designs at Barrick Goldstrike

Nick D. Rose

Robert P. Sharon

Slope Stability and Operational Control at Barrick Goldstrike

Robert Sharon

Pit Slope Design at Orapa Mine

J. Jakubec

P.J. Terbrugge

A.R. Guest

F. Ramsden

Slope Stability Assessment at the Main Cresson Mine

M. Pierce

T. Brandshaug

M. Ward

Analysis of Stability Loss in Open-Pit Slopes and Assessment Principles for Hard, Tectonically Stressed Rock Masses

Anatoly A. Kozyrev

Sergei P. Reshetnyak

Victor A. Maltsev

Vadim V. Rybin

Coal Mine Highwall Stability

Ben L. Seegmiller

SECTION 3 STABILITY OF WASTE ROCK EMBANKMENTS

Site Selection, Characterization, and Assessment

P. Mark Hawley

Assessment of Embankment Parameters

David J. Williams

The Mechanism Controlling Angle-of-Repose Stability in Waste Rock Embankments

David B. Campbell

Embankment Hydrology-Storage Water Controls

Gary R.E. Beckstead

John Slater

Neil van der Gugten

Andrzej Slawinski

Embankment Hydrology and Unsaturated Flow in Waste Rock

G. Ward Wilson

Operation and Monitoring Considerations from a British Columbia Mountain Terrain Perspective

Tim Eaton

Reclamation and Surface Stabilization

Rene A. Renteria

Observational Engineering for Open-Pit Geotechnics: A Case Study of Predictions Versus Performance for the Stability of a High Overburden Embankment over a Soft/Deep Soil Foundation at PT Freeport Indonesia's Grasberg Open-Pit Mine

W. Kevin Walker

Mark J. Johnson

Construction and Operation of a Major Mined-Rock Disposal Facility at Elkview Coal Corporation, British Columbia

Brent K. Zeitz

Steepened Spoil Slopes at Bridger Coal Company

William L. Gerhard

Design Objectives for Mine Waste Rock Disposal Facilities at Phosphate Mines in Southeastern Idaho

Brian Buck

SECTION 4 TAILINGS AND HEAP LEACHING

Tailings Dam Stability: Essential Ingredients for Success

Michael Davies

Todd Martin

Peter Lighthall

A Database of Quantitative Risks in Tailing Management

Dr. F. Oboni

Dr. I. Bruce

Management and Operational Background to Three Tailings Dam Failures in South Africa

Geoffrey Blight

Tailings Basin Water Management

Donald E. Welch

The Gold Ridge Mine Tailings Storage Facility: An Australian Case History

Mike Gowan

Glen Fergus

Stability Analysis of a Waste Rock Dump of Great Height Founded over a Tailings Impoundment in a High Seismicity Area

Ramon Verdugo

Carlos Andrade

Sergio Barrera

Jose Lara

Stability Issues Related to Tailing Storage and Heap Leach Facilities

Donald R. East

Julio E. Valera

Case Study: Stability Analysis of the Cresson Valley Leach Facility (Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mining Company)

John F. Lupo

Terry Mandziak

Radomiro Tomic Secondary Heap Leach Facility

Carlos Andrade

Edgar Bard O

Hugo Garrido

Jose Campana

Influence of the Direction of Ore Placement on the Stability of Ore Heaps on Geomembrane-Lined Pads

M.E. Smith

J.P. Giroud

Index