Assessment Of Seismic Monitoring In A Deep Level Scattered Gold Mining Environment

Seismic monitoring over the Klerksdorp goldfield has been undertaken since 1971<br>and over the past three decades development has progressed to the point that<br>forecasting of large potentially damaging events have become a reality. Three<br>failure processes have been identified namely, fracturing ahead of the face,<br>localized structural failure and massive structural failure. In order to improve the<br>forecasting ability, events recorded from each of these processes will have to be<br>separated and methods developed to identify massive structural failure.