Slope Stability Analysis of Nkran Pit at Asanko Gold Mine, Ghana

摘要

The West Wall of Nkran Pit Mine is vulnerable to slope instability, mostly due to mining activities.Detailed failure analysis of the discontinuity data of the selected slope was performed using the Dips (6.0) software.The study has shown the likelihood of planar failure, wedge failure, flexural toppling failure and direct toppling failureoccurring per the slope angle design of 70°. When the slope angle was increased by 5° and 10°, there were percentageincreases in planar, wedge, flexural toppling and direct toppling failure of (1.86 and 7.45)%, (1.23 and 2.81)%, (0.62and 0.62)% and (0.60 and 1.70)% respectively. It has been recommended that flattening or reducing slope angle couldbe done as it reduces the weight of material which in turn improves the stability of the slope and also controlledblasting should be employed to minimise excessive damage to the walls.