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Mining excavations are of two types — service openings and production openings. Service openings include mine accesses, ore haulage drives, airways, crusher chambers and underground workshop space. They are characterised by a duty life approaching the mining life of the orebody. It is therefore necessary to design these openings so that their operational rôle can be maintained at low cost over a relatively long operational life.
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© 1999 B.H.G. Brady and E.T. Brown
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Brady, B.H.G., Brown, E.T. (1999). Excavation design in massive elastic rock. In: Rock Mechanics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8129-5_7
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