Report of Investigations 9446: In Situ Stress Measurements Near the Ross Shaft Pillar, Homestake Mine, South Dakota

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• Journal Article:
  Spokane, WA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 9446
• Personal Author:
  Johnson, Jeffrey C. ; Pariseau, William G. ; Scott, Douglas F. ; Jenkins, F. Michael
• Description:
  In situ stresses are important input data for the design of safe, stable stope layouts and extraction sequences. However, it is commonly assumed that normal and shear stress gradients in a stress field are negligible and, consequently, that stresses are uniform throughout the region of analysis. To evaluate these assumptions and to provide input data for an analysis of a shaft pillar mining plan, in situ stresses were measured at the Homestake Mine, Lead, South Dakota, using overcoring on hollow inclusion cells and borehole deformation gauges. These measurements were used with conventional least squares, best fit data reduction schemes. The results showed that normal stresses within the shaft pillar were less than, but comparable to, those estimated from finite-element modeling. Shear stresses were an order of magnitude less than normal stresses and varied considerably from site to site. Possible causes of this variability include effects of scale, elastic moduli, anisotropy, and axial strain. Because of the variability, it is not possible to determine the magnitude of horizontal stress gradients. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Dust Explosions Mining Occupational Health Particulate Matter Risk Assessment Safety
• Keywords:
  Mining-industry; Underground-mining; Rock-bursts; Rock-falls; Rock-mechanics; Geology
• Source:
  Spokane, WA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 9446, 1993 Jan; :1-17
• Series:
  Mining Publications   ; NIOSH Numbered Publications  
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 8 ; South Dakota ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  SRC - Spokane Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  21 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10003215
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB93-189769
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1993
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4dc60161d7ba697ef68d22721125d0f7d968adb60e314a64b4af7243118defbdfe216e19c4ff2be514b2a3e76c79654e252f7435b96424869d0a00ab43ec8bff
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/9551/cdc_9551_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.45 MB ]