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Analysis of blasting damage in adjacent mining excavations

Author(s) -

Nick Yugo,

Woo Jong Shin

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

journal of rock mechanics and geotechnical engineering

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.47

H-Index - 46

eISSN - 2589-0417

pISSN - 1674-7755

DOI - 10.1016/j.jrmge.2014.12.005

Subject(s) - rock blasting , excavation , wedge (geometry) , geotechnical engineering , fault plane , geology , rock mass classification , limiting , mining engineering , rock bolt , fault (geology) , seismology , engineering , physics , mechanical engineering , optics

Following a small-scale wedge failure at Yukon Zinc's Wolverine Mine in Yukon, Canada, a vibration monitoring program was added to the existing rockbolt pull testing regime. The failure in the 1150 drift occurred after numerous successive blasts in an adjacent tunnel had loosened friction bolts passing through an unmapped fault. Analysis of blasting vibration revealed that support integrity is not compromised unless there is a geological structure to act as a failure plane. The peak particle velocity (PPV) rarely exceeded 250 mm/s with a frequency larger than 50 Hz. As expected, blasting more competent rock resulted in higher PPVs. In such cases, reducing the round length from 3.5 m to 2.0 m was an effective means of limiting potential rock mass and support damage

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