Optimizing the assessment of risks associated with pit slope failures is of paramount importance for ensuring the safety of mine personnel and equipment. Equally important is the avoidance of business interruption and damages to haul roads accessing the bottom of a pit. Lives can be lost, equipment can be buried, and production interruptions can cost millions of dollars per day. In extreme cases, pits may never recover.
From probabilistic geo-mechanical models to failure and event trees and, more recently, the development of advanced yet simple computational techniques like ORE2_Slopes by SRK consultants Franco Oboni and Cesar Oboni and a new approach by Luis-Fernando Contreras, risk analysis methodologies have evolved through a continuous process of refinement and innovation.
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