Deep gold mine fracture zone behaviour

Abstract

The investigation of the behaviour of the fracture zone surrounding deep level gold mine stopes is detailed in three main sections of this report. Section 2 outlines the ongoing study of fundamental fracture process and their numerical representation. While section 3 presents a detailed summary of wave propagation and blast fracture processes. And lastly, section 4 contains a description of model calibration experiments and the important application of acoustic emission monitoring techniques in tracking laboratory scale fracture processes