The Hoek-Brown failure criterion is an empirical stress surface used in rock mechanics to predict the failure of rock. It was originally ...Read more
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The phenomena may be defined as sudden highly violent failure or the collapse of the rock under high stresses causing ...Read more
Several laboratory tests are used to determine the strength of rocks. In this article, we will focus on four of ...Read more
Cut-off grades in mining are influenced by several key factors. Commodity prices: higher prices for the mined commodity can lower the ...Read more
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Rock quality designation (RQD) is a standard technique in the mining industry for the qualitative and quantitative assessment of rock ...Read more
The multiGaussian approach provides a parametric approach to infer the conditional distribution at unsampled locations. An alternative to that model ...Read more
The kriging estimate has an associated kriging variance which measures the variance of the error between the estimate and the ...Read more
Barite plays a significant role in high-sulphidation epithermal systems, serving as a key indicator of mineralization and hydrothermal activity. These ...Read more
During the Geologic Map Day on the October, 19th, the USGS presented a geological map of the moon. Created by ...Read more