To sustain and increase the productivity in a large underground copper mine in India the management of the mine decided to design and develop stopes below the mined out area. For the design of the stopes a detailed stress measurement programme was carried out by hydrofracture method at different depths from the developments available near the pro-posed stope. The result indicated a post mining induced high stress tensor with the direction of the maximum compression (maximum principal horizontal stress) rotated 70–750 from the pre-mining stress tensor and oriented almost transverse to the ore body as against sub parallel to the orebody during pre- mining stage. A 3-D numerical modeling of the mine with pre mining stress tensor as input parameter substantiated the field result at the post mining stage. The generation of post - mining stress helped in understanding the impact of mining on the stress and was used for design and sequencing of the stoping operation for the safe and optimum extraction of the ore.
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ISRM International Conference for Effective and Sustainable Hydraulic Fracturing
May 20–22, 2013
Brisbane, Australia
Estimation of the Impact of Mining on Stresses by Actual Measurements in Pre and Post Mining Stages by Hydrofracture Method–A Case Study in a Copper Mine Available to Purchase
Smarajit Sengupta;
Smarajit Sengupta
National Institute of Rock Mechanics
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Dhubburi S. Subrahmanyam;
Dhubburi S. Subrahmanyam
National Institute of Rock Mechanics
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Rabindra Kuram Sinha;
Rabindra Kuram Sinha
National Institute of Rock Mechanics
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Govinda Shyam
Govinda Shyam
National Institute of Rock Mechanics
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Paper presented at the ISRM International Conference for Effective and Sustainable Hydraulic Fracturing, Brisbane, Australia, May 2013.
Paper Number:
ISRM-ICHF-2013-039
Published:
May 20 2013
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Sengupta, Smarajit, Subrahmanyam, Dhubburi S., Kuram Sinha, Rabindra, and Govinda Shyam. "Estimation of the Impact of Mining on Stresses by Actual Measurements in Pre and Post Mining Stages by Hydrofracture Method–A Case Study in a Copper Mine." Paper presented at the ISRM International Conference for Effective and Sustainable Hydraulic Fracturing, Brisbane, Australia, May 2013.
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