Analysing the Bingham Canyon mine landslide part 2: the landslide trackThe second part of my three-part posting analysing the Bingham Canyon landslideThe Landslide Blog
Michael Hobbs
The 2013 Bingham Canyon Mine rock avalanches represent one of the largest cumulative landslide events in recorded U.S. history and provide a unique opportunity to test remote analysis techniques for landslide characterization. Here we combine aerial photogrammetry surveying, topographic reconstruction, ...
As part of its recovery from the massive landslide that occurred at its Binghan Canyon mine in April, Rio Tinto Kennecott announced on November 6 that it had achieved its latest slide remediation milestone-restoring top-to-bottom access within the mine by restoring the pit access road. The ...
Bingham Canyonnumerical modellingmaterial point methodrisk assesment.This paper introduces a pioneering use of the material point method (MPM) in a three-dimensional analysis of a field-scale landslide. The MPM is a numerical technique derived from a continuum mechanics framework that allows the use ...
Bingham Canyonnumerical modellingmaterial point methodrisk assesmentThis paper introduces a pioneering use of the material point method (MPM) in a three-dimensional analysis of a field-scale landslide. The MPM is a numerical technique derived from a continuum mechanics framework that allows the use ...
The article reports on the move of mining company Rio Tinto to cut its 2013 output forecast for copper. Rio Tinto revised the forecast following a landslide at the Bingham Canyon mine in Utah, run by its Kennecott Utah Copper. Kennecott Utah Copper's mined and refined copper production for ...