Pit slope manual.
Series: CANMET report ; 76-22, 77-01--77-2, 77-4, 77-6, 77-13--77-18, 77-19, 77-24--77-31, 77-58
Publisher: Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Subjects: Slopes (Soil mechanics); Strip mining.
Notes: "Prepared as part of the Pit Slope Project of the Mining Research Laboratories, Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology, Energy, Mines and Resources Canada."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Chapter 1. Summary.; value: Chapter 2. Structural geology. Supplement 2-1. Discodat Program package. Supplement 2-2. Domain analysis programs. Supplement 2-3. Geophysics for open pit sites. Supplement 2-5. Structural geology, case history. (3 v.); value: Chapter 3. Supplement 3-1, Laboratory classification tests. Supplement 3-2, Laboratory tests for design parameters. Supplement 3-3, In situ field tests. Supplement 3-4, Selected soil tests. Supplement 3-5, Sampling and specimen preparation.; value: Chapter 4. Groundwater. Supplement 4-1. Computer manual for seepage analysis.; value: Chapter 5. Design. Supplement 5-1, Plane shear analysis. Supplement 5-2, Rotational shear sliding: analyses and computer programs. Supplement 5-3, Financial computer programs.; value: Chapter 6. Mechanical support. Supplement 6-1, Buttresses and retaining walls.; value: Chapter 7. Perimeter blasting.; value: Chapter 8. Monitoring.; value: Chapter 9. Waste embankments.; value: Chapter 10. Environmental planning. Supplement 10-1, Reclamation by vegetation. v. 1. Mine waste description and case histories. v. 2. Mine waste inventory by satellite imagery.