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1956

Underground Mining

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An Investigation Of Ground Pressure By Scale Model, Theodore F. Berthelote Jun 1956

An Investigation Of Ground Pressure By Scale Model, Theodore F. Berthelote

Bachelors Theses and Reports, 1928 - 1970

This report includes a brief survey of the literature pertaining to the application of scale models to the study of ground pressure, a discussion of the theory of scale models, description of model material and loading devices used in this study, and a discussion of results obtained in actual experimentation.


Modern Hydraulic Filling In Underground Metal Mines, Rainer Gevers May 1956

Modern Hydraulic Filling In Underground Metal Mines, Rainer Gevers

Bachelors Theses and Reports, 1928 - 1970

While the practice of back-filling is almost as old as mining, it was only when modern machines made possible the removal of vast tonnages of rock, that the support of underground workings-- by filling work-out stopes-- became peremptory from both the humane and economic aspects.