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The Fourth Australasian Ground Control in Mining Conference (AusRock)

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A personal review of South African rockburst research, experience and lessons learnt

South Africa has a long history of rockbursts, some 100 years. During this time much research and many developments have taken place in the country to limit the occurrence of rockbursts, and to mitigate their effects. In this paper I shall present a personal view of what I consider to be important achievements, and contributions made. Some of these are: planning of stope layouts, and the use of strike barrier pillars; recognition of energy as a key factor, the use of the energy release rate ERR as a layout planning criterion, and development of MINSIM for calculation of ERR and stope planning; sequential grid stope layouts; use of backfill for stope support; and, development yielding support elements, and dynamic testing of stope and tunnel supports. The record shows the establishment of a rock engineering research powerhouse over a 40 to 50 year period and, unfortunately, the complete breakdown of this capability in the subsequent 10 years. CITATION:Stacey, T R, 2018. A personal review of South African rockburst research, experience and lessons learnt, in
Proceedings The Fourth Australasian Ground Control in Mining Conference (AusRock), pp 5-16 (The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne).
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  • Published: 2017
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