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Pit slope manual. Supplement 3-4, Selected soil tests .: M38-13/77-28E-PDF

"This supplement describes soil testing methods relevant to open pit mining. For grain size analysis particles are sized by sieving and sedimentation. Consistency limits - shrinkage, plastic and liquid limits - are arbitrary measures of soil behaviour determined by standard soil mechanics procedures. Moisture density relationships when sample material is limited are determined using the Harvard miniature compaction apparatus. Triaxial tests with pore pressure measurement allow the effective stress parameters of soils to be determined; a triaxial cell with pressure monitoring instruments is used. The field vane shear test allows the undrained strength of saturated clay to be determined in situ"--Abstract.

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Department/Agency
  • Canada. Energy, Mines and Resources Canada.
  • Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology.
  • Minerals Research Program (Canada)
  • Mining Research Laboratories (Canada)
TitlePit slope manual. Supplement 3-4, Selected soil tests .
Series title
  • CANMET report ; 77-28
Publication typeMonograph - View Master Record
Language[English]
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • Cover title.
  • "This supplement has been prepared as part of the Pit Slope Project of the Mining Research Laboratories, Canada Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology, Energy, Mines and Resources Canada."
  • "Minerals Research Program, Mining Research Laboratories."
  • "Gyenge, M. and Ladanyi, B."
  • Digitized edition from print [produced by Natural Resources Canada].
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Publishing information
  • Ottawa : CANMET, Energy, Mines and Resources Canada, c1977.
Author / Contributor
  • Gyenge, M.
  • Ladanyi, B., 1922-
Description18 p. : ill.
Catalogue number
  • M38-13/77-28E-PDF
Departmental catalogue number307117
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