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Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
versión On-line ISSN 2411-9717
versión impresa ISSN 2225-6253
Resumen
WATSON, B.P.; LAMOS, R.A. y ROBERTS, D.P.. PlatMine pillar strength formula for the UG2 Reef. J. S. Afr. Inst. Min. Metall. [online]. 2021, vol.121, n.8, pp.437-448. ISSN 2411-9717. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2411-9717/1387/2021.
The Upper Group 2 (UG2) chromitite reef is a shallow-dipping stratiform tabular orebody in the South African Bushveld Complex, which strikes for hundreds of kilometres. Mining is extensive, with depths ranging from close-to-surface to 2 500 m. Pillars are widely used to support the open stopes and bords. Little work has been done in the past to determine the strength of pillars on the UG2 Reef and design was done using formulae developed for other hard-rock mines. This has led to oversized pillars with consequent sterilization of ore. In this paper we describe a back-analysis of stable and failed UG2 pillars on the Bushveld platinum mines, and provides a strength formula for UG2 pillars. The formula may be used cautiously on all Bushveld platinum mines with similar geotechnical, geometrical, and geomechanical conditions to the pillars in the database.
Palabras clave : UG2; pillar strength formula; chromitite; back-analysis.