ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: This paper describes the first use of hydraulic fracturing for cave inducement in a block caving mine. As of September 1999, several hundred hydraulic fracture treatments have been performed at Northparkes and are attributed with inducing about 7 million tonnes of ore to cave.
Keywords:
fracture growth,
borehole,
rock mass,
hydraulic fracturing,
shear,
contour,
Orebody,
fracture,
Upstream Oil & Gas,
injection
Subjects:
Hydraulic Fracturing
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