Classification of Non-oriented Fractures Along Boreholes to Joint Sets and its Success Degree |
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Authors: | E Henry D Marcotte P Kavanagh |
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Institution: | (1) Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB (LKAB), R&D Department, Kiruna, Sweden, SE;(2) école Polytechnique de Montréal, Mineral Engineering Department, Montréal, Canada, CA |
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Abstract: | Summary
The feasibility and safety of a mining project or the choice among alternative mining methods could depend on the joint densities
and orientations within the rock mass. The accurate determination of the orientation of all joints is technically difficult
and often economically unrealistic. This study presents a new approach in classifying joints found in exploration boreholes
as joint sets, whose statistical distribution is determined from a few hundred oriented joints in boreholes. Each non-oriented
joint is classified as belonging to a set based on its “a posteriori” probability of membership in a Bayesian framework. The
theoretical rate of success of the classification can be computed for each possible borehole orientation and plotted on a
stereonet to determine the optimal orientation of new boreholes. The performance and limitations of this approach are investigated.
An application example at the Mont Porphyre's large scale block-caving project at Gaspé Mines, Quebec, Canada, is studied. |
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