Stereotomography

The following paper presents a new exploration technique called stereotomography. Such a technique appropriately combines stereograms with data from borecores or from drillhole logs. Its purpose will be to show graphically the general trends of data for structural domains, for sectors, or for a whole mine. This method has been originally designed for discrete RQD measurements between boreholes, but it also has many other uses when RQD is substituted by any other physical or geophysical parameter related to the rock mass. In their example case, the authors found that such a so-called stereotomographic technique, supported by a complete structural geology study, will be decisive in the choice of potential mining sites, since it can delimit the discontinuity attitudes present inside the rock mass.