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Introducing RocSlope: 3D Block Stability Risk Assessment of Rock Slopes
- Jun, 28, 2023
- Mining Risk & Reliability Slope Stability Analysis Rock Engineering Slope Stability News On Products & Services
- Authored by: Rocscience Inc
Today, Rocscience is pleased to announce the launch of RocSlope, a state-of-the-art 3D analysis program enabling engineers in the civil and mining industries to assess the factors of safety of hu...
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Landslide hits workers’ dormitory in China’s Sichuan province
- Jun, 04, 2023
- Landslides Slope Stability Mining Other Geotechnical News On Natural Disasters / Failures Other News
- China, Leshan
- Authored by: Lysimachos Tigkas
A landslide occurred in the Yongsheng township of the Sichuan province in China, in the early morning hours of June 4. A worker’s dormitory was hit in the event and resulted in 19 fatalities, all of...
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How abandoned mines can be reused as gravity batteries
- Jan, 11, 2023
- Energy Geotechnics Tunneling Underground Structures Green Infrastructure Mining Other Geotechnical News On Publications Other News
- Authored by: Lysimachos Tigkas
A new study proposes that abandoned mines can be reused as gravity batteries and store excess energy from renewable sources. The study was led by the International Institute for Applied System Analy...
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Evaluating the Efficiency of Room and Pillar Mining in Greece using RS3
- May, 11, 2023
- Mining News On Research / Academia News On Software News On Projects / Industry
- Canada, Toronto
- Authored by: Rocscience Inc
Underground mining of unexploited coal reserves is on the rise in Greece, due to its heavy dependency on lignite resources for electricity. The room and pillar approach for underground mining is a co...
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Open-pit coal mine collapse in China
- Feb, 22, 2023
- Deep Excavations Erosion Landslides Mining Slope Stability
- China, Alxa League
- Authored by: Lysimachos Tigkas
An open-pit coal mine collapsed in Alxa League in Inner Mongolia, China, on Wednesday the 22nd of February. A 180-meter-tall slope failure caused the mine to be buried under a very large volume of...
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EV's: Driving Demand for Lithium
- Feb, 17, 2023
- Mining Slope Stability Analysis News On Software News On Products & Services News On Research / Academia
- Authored by: Rocscience Inc
I’m sure in recent weeks you’ve opened your favourite news source and seen a headline mentioning Electric or Hybrid cars. Whether it’s news about Tesla’s latest factory or governmental policies aimed...
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GeoStudio 2022.1 new release is here!
- Oct, 27, 2022
- Dam Engineering Deep Excavations Earth Retaining Structures Geoenvironmental Engineering Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Earthquake Reconnaissance Ground Improvement Groundwater & Seepage Mining Slope Stability Road Embankments News On Software
- Authored by: Geoengineer.org
In the latest GeoStudio version, you’ll notice improvements to speed up your geotechnical 3D workflow. Key features and functionality are implemented to improve your 3D modelling experience and to en...
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Slide3 and RS2 : The Tools of Choice for Back-Analysis of an Open Pit Mine Highwall Failure
The Methodology Step 2 – Iterative calibration of the base case model reproduced the observed failure characteristics. Several data sources and assumptions were used in the preparation of the base (...
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Rocscience | Geotechnical Software for Open Pit Mining
Surface mining, whether you call it open pit, opencast, or open cut is a common method of extracting minerals like coal, iron, gold, and copper from shallow depths below the ground. Slope stability a...
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3D Slope Stability Analysis of an Open Pit Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Jul, 08, 2022
- Mining Slope Stability Analysis Other Geotechnical News On Software
- Authored by: Rocscience Inc
By Thiago Bretas and Felipe Vilela, BVP Engenharia. Two-dimensional (2D) limit equilibrium analysis is the most common method of slope stability analysis in geotechnical engineering practice. That’s...
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