Catastrophic dynamic rock failure, commonly known as rock or coal burst, presents one of the most challenging problems in civil tunneling and mining. This phenomenon is typically triggered by a ...

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Jagersfontien, a small town in the middle of South Africa with over a century of mining history, awoke to a tragic failure of responsibility on 11 September 2022 when torrents of muddy water cascaded ...

Massive tailings dams, like this functional one near Antonio Pereira, Brazil, are built by mining companies to hold back the sludge left behind when a mill separates metals from ore. But the dams fail ...

MARIANA, Brazil (Reuters) - As despair turns to anger over a deadly dam burst at a Brazilian mine, lawmakers pushed on Tuesday for tougher regulations in a new mining code and iron ore giant Vale SA ...

Further, the concept of energy balance was applied to calculate the seismic energy radiated during the mining process and the kinetic energy of ejected rock or coal for a given burst scenario. The ...