SLOPE ANGLE ESTIMATION OF AMOANDA EAST PIT OF ABOSSO GOLD FIELDS, GHANA

Authors

  • G Agyei DEPARTMENT OF MINING ENGINEERING, UNIV. OF MINES & TECHNOLOGY, P.O. BOX 237, TARKWA, GHANA
  • L Ocran DEPARTMENT OF MINING ENGINEERING, UNIV. OF MINES & TECHNOLOGY, P.O. BOX 237, TARKWA, GHANA
  • EM Buaba DEPARTMENT OF MINING ENGINEERING, UNIV. OF MINES & TECHNOLOGY, P.O. BOX 237, TARKWA, GHANA

Abstract

This paper  determines  the possible modes of slope failure,  and the  effect of increasing the slope angle of the Amoanda East Pit Wall of Abosso Gold Fields Limited, Damang Mine by 5o and 10o from 70o because the designed slope angle (70o) will increase ore losses at Amoanda East. The methods employed include field geotechnical mapping of the slope face, and kinematic analysis using DIPS 6.0 software to analyse the modes of failures. Based on the kinematic analysis conducted using the slope angle per design (70o), it was found that the percentage of toppling, planar and wedge failures obtained were 20.05%, 5.41% and 0% respectively. Also, when the slope angle of Amoanda East Pit Wall was increased by 5o (75o) and 10o (80o), there was percentage increase in toppling and planar failures of (0.12 and 0.99) % and (2.59 and 4.18) % respectively, with no increment in wedge failure. Hence there is the possibility of planar and toppling failure with no wedge failure occurring at the Amoanda East. It is therefore recommended that, since the percentage increment in toppling and wedge were not significant when the slope angle was increased, the mine should continue to increase the slope angle by 5o and 10o from 70o.

 

http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/njt.v38i3.8

Downloads

Published

2019-06-27

Issue

Vol. 38 No. 3 (2019): NIGERIAN JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY, VOL. 38, NO. 3, JULY 2019

Section

Building, Civil & Geotechnical Engineering

License

The contents of the articles are the sole opinion of the author(s) and not of NIJOTECH.

NIJOTECH allows open access for distribution of the published articles in any media so long as whole (not part) of articles are distributed.

A copyright and statement of originality documents will need to be filled out clearly and signed prior to publication of an accepted article. The Copyright form can be downloaded from http://nijotech.com/downloads/COPYRIGHT%20FORM.pdf while the Statement of Originality is in http://nijotech.com/downloads/Statement%20of%20Originality.pdf

 

For articles that were developed from funded research, a clear acknowledgement of such support should be mentioned in the article with relevant references. Authors are expected to provide complete information on the sponsorship and intellectual property rights of the article together with all exceptions.

 

It is forbidden to publish the same research report in more than one journal.

How to Cite

SLOPE ANGLE ESTIMATION OF AMOANDA EAST PIT OF ABOSSO GOLD FIELDS, GHANA. (2019). Nigerian Journal of Technology, 38(3), 594-602. https://nijotech.com/index.php/nijotech/article/view/2047