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By Hugo Melo

Africa: Sega Project Open Pit Slope Design, Amara Mining

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This gold project in Burkina Faso  involved the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of existing data to generate geotechnical drilling locations for rock mass characterisation studies. A detailed geotechnical and structural logging exercise was carried out and samples selected for analysis. A structural, kinematic and limit equilibrium analysis of data resulted in the completion of a detailed technical report outlining the open-pit slope parameters to be adhered to. This work was performed during 2012.