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To sink mine shafts and drive inclined drifts, underground roadways or tunnels successfully, experience and skill is needed to maintain excavation stability and to deal with and control groundwater. The presence of the latter is possibly the most serious threat to working in the underground environment and the miner must always operate with care when approaching known zones of water-bearing strata.
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Auld, F.A. (1996). Design of Underground Plugs. In: Fuenkajorn, K., Daemen, J.J.K. (eds) Sealing of Boreholes and Underground Excavations in Rock. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1505-3_10
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