January 2018

New approaches to monitoring, analyzing and predicting slope instabilities

In a mining operation, any noticeable instability can pose a catastrophic threat to the lives of workers. Slope instability can also disrupt the chain of production in a mine, resulting in a loss to the business. Due to the potential threat associated with rock mass movement, it is necessary to be able to predict the time of slope failure. In the past couple of decades, innovations in slope monitoring equipment have...

Author(s): Upasna Chandarana Kothari and Moe Momayez