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Evaluation of Groundwater Flow by Gravel-Filling and Temporary Drainage in Groundwater-saturated Limestone Mine Cavities (지하수 포화 석회석 채굴공동에서의 골재 충전 및 임시배수시 발생하는 지하수 유동 평가)

  • Choi, Woo-Seok;Kang, Byung-Chun;Kim, Eun-Sup;Shin, Dong-Choon
    • Tunnel and Underground Space
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.205-216
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    • 2017
  • Fluctuations in groundwater level are the major cause of ground subsidence in the abandoned limestone mine. In this study, evaluation of groundwater flow under three different cases of natural condition, aggregate-filling, temporary drainage in groundwater-saturated limestone mine cavities was executed by 3-dimensional analysis. In the case of aggregate-filling, although the water level both in the upper ground of mine cavities and an agricultural watershed was elevated, it was lower than the water level fluctuation of an agricultural water use and rainfall and the flow rate was similar to the flow rate of natural condition. In the case of temporary drainage, as the water level in the upper ground of mine cavities and an agricultural watershed decrease rapidly and the flow rate has increased by 25times, so the risk of ground subsidence increased.

A Case Study of Site Investigation and Ground Stability Analysis for Diagnosis of Subsidence Occurrence in Limestone Mine (석회석 광산 지역의 지반침하 원인 규명을 위한 현장조사와 지반 안정성 분석 사례)

  • Lee, Seung-Joong;Kim, Byung-Ryeol;Choi, Sung-Oong;Oh, Seok-Hoon
    • Tunnel and Underground Space
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.332-340
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    • 2015
  • Ground subsidence occurring in mine area can cause an enormous damage of loss of lives and properties, and a systematic survey should be conducted a series of field investigation and ground stability analysis in subsidence area. This study describes the results from field investigation and ground stability analysis in a limestone mine located in Cheongwon-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea. Rock mechanical measurements and electrical resistivity surveys are applied to obtain the characteristics of in-situ rock masses and the distribution patterns of subsurface weak zone, and their results are extrapolated in numerical analysis. From the field investigation and stability analysis, it is concluded that the subsidence occurrence in this limestone mine is caused mainly by subsurface limestone cavities.

Development of the Environmentally Friendly Filling Material for the Underground Cavities using the Rock-dust and an Assessment on Filling and Material Characteristics (석분토를 이용한 지하공동의 친환경적 충전재 개발과 충전 및 재료특성 평가)

  • Ma Sang-Joon;Kim Dong-Min
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.21 no.9
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    • pp.35-44
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    • 2005
  • Recently, underground cavities such as limestone cavity and abandoned mine give rise to a lot of damage in SOC facilities. But there are many difficult problems such as delay of the working terms and enormous economic losses in finding a new method and changing construction design. In this study, a new filling material for underground cavities was developed using the stone-dust classified as industry waste polluting environment. As a result of test, filling material properties was that a compressive strength was $34{\~}60\;kgf/cm^2$, a change ratio in length was $0.268{\~}0.776\%$ and water absorption was $34.3{\~}46.9\%$. Also as a result of suspended mass test and pH test, it was confirmed that the developed filling material has a characteristic of non-separating in water and it was an environmentally friendly material.

A Numerical Analysis on the Collapse and Backfill Mechanism of the Abandoned Mine Cavity (폐광의 점진적 파괴 및 뒷채움 효과에 대한 해석적 연구)

  • Lee, Jun-Suk;Bang, C.S.
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.62-71
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    • 2000
  • The abandoned mines causing settlement of the surface above and collapse of the cavities are the major influencing factor on the stability of the nearby underground structures. To prevent the harmful effect, the backfill methods are commonly applied to the cavities although the design criteria and the analysis method are not properly addressed in some cases. An approximate analytical method together with the numerical technique is considered in this study to simulate the gradual deterioration of the rock masses around the cavities and, therefore, the influential zone to the underground structures passing through the cavities. Also considered in this study is the backfill effect on the stability of the rock masses around the cavities. Specifically, the incomplete backfill effect is compared with that of the idealized backfill method by adopting elasto-plastic analysis involving a strain softening material law.

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Case Stories of Microgravity Survey for Shallow Subsurface Investigation (고정밀 중력탐사를 이용한 천부 지질구조 조사 사례)

  • Park Yeong-Sue;Rim Hyoungrae;Lim Mutaek;Koo Sung Bon;Kim Hag Soo;Oh Seok Hoon
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.181-186
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    • 2005
  • Gravity method produces subsurface density distribution, which is direct information of soundness of basement. Therefore, microgravity is one of the most effective method for detections of limestone cavities, abandoned mine-shafts and other tunnels, The paper show the effectiveness of microgravity by three different field cases.

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Microgravity for Engineering and Environmental Applications (토목.환경 응용을 위한 고정밀 중력탐사)

  • Park, Yeong-Sue;Rim, Hyoung-Rae;Lim, Mu-Taek
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.12a
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    • pp.15-25
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    • 2007
  • Gravity method could be one of the most effective tool for evaluating the soundness of basement which is directly correlated with density and its variations. Moreover, Gravimeter is easy to handle and strong to electromagnetic noises. But, gravity anomaly due to the target structures in engineering and environmemtal applications are too small to detect, comparing to the external changes, such as, elevation, topography, and regional geological variations. Gravity method targeting these kinds of small anomaly sources with high precision usually called microgravity. Microgravimetry with precision and accuracy of few ${\mu}Gal$, can be achieved by the recent high-resolution gravimeter, careful field acquisition, and sophisticated processing, analysis, and interpretation routines. This paper describes the application of the microgravity, such as, density structure of a rock fill dam, detection of abandoned mine-shaft, detection and mapping of karstic cavities in limestone terrains, and time-lapse gravity for grout monitoring. The case studies show how the gravity anomalies detect the location of the targets and reveal the geologic structure by mapping density distributions and their variations.

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Occurrence and Chemical Composition of Minerals from the Pallancata Ag Mine, Peru (페루 Pallancata 은 광산에서 산출되는 광물들의 산상 및 화학조성)

  • Yoo, Bong Chul;Acosta, Jorge
    • Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.87-102
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    • 2019
  • Pallancata Ag mine is located at the Ayacucho region 520 km southeast of Lima. The geology of mine area consists of mainly Cenozoic volcanic-intrusive rocks, which are composed of tuff, andesitic lava, andesitic tuff, pyroclastic flow, volcano clasts, rhyolite and quartz monzonite. This mine have about 100 quartz veins in tuff filling regional faults orienting NW, NE and EW directions. The Ag grades in quartz veins are from 40 to 1,000 g/t. Quartz veins vary from 0.1 m to 25 m in thickness and extend to about 3,000 m in strike length. Quartz veins show following textures including zonation, cavity, massive, breccia, crustiform, colloform and comb textures. Wallrock alteration features including silicification, sericitization, pyritization, chloritization and argillitization are obvious. The quartz veins contain calcite, chalcedony, adularia, fluorite, rutile, zircon, apatite, Fe oxide, REE mineral, Cr oxide, Al-Si-O mineral, pyrite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, galena, electrum, proustite-pyrargyrite, pearceite-polybasite and acanthite. The temperature and sulfur fugacity ($f_{s2}$) of the Ag mineralization estimated from the mineral assemblages and mineral compositions are ranging from 118 to $222^{\circ}C$ and from $10^{-20.8}$ to $10^{-13.2}atm$, respectively. The relatively low temperature and sulfur-oxygen fugacities in the hydrothermal fluids during the Ag mineralization in Pallancata might be due to cooling and/or boiling of Ag-bearing fluids by mixing of meteoric water in the relatively shallow hydrothermal environment. The hydrothermal condition may be corresponding to an intermediate sulfidation epithermal mineralization.

A Case Study of Electrical Resistivity and Borehole Imaging Methods for Detecting Underground Cavities and Monitoring Ground Subsidence at Abandoned Underground Mines (폐광산 지역의 공동 탐지 및 지반침하 모니터링을 위한 전기비저항탐사와 시추공영상촬영기법 적용 사례)

  • Choi, Jeong-Ryul;Kim, Seung-Sep;Park, Sang-Kyu;Shin, Kwang-Soo;Kang, Byung-Chun
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.195-208
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    • 2013
  • We employed electrical resistivity and optical borehole imaging methods to identify underground cavities and determine ground subsidence rate at the study area affected by land subsidence due to abandoned underground mines. At the study site 1, the anomalous zones of low resistivity ranging between 100 ohm-meter and 150 ohm-meter were observed and confirmed as an abandoned underground mine by subsequent borehole drilling and optical borehole imaging. Although the electrical resistivity survey was unavailable due to the paved surface of the study site 2, we were able to locate another abandoned underground mine with the collapsed mine shaft based on the distribution of the ore veins and confirmed it with borehole drilling. In addition, we measured vertical displacements of underground features indicating underground subsidence by conducting optical borehole imaging 6 times over a period of 43 days at the study site 2. The displacement magnitude at the deep segment caused by subsidence appeared to be 3 times larger than those at the shallow segment. Similarly, the displacement duration at the deep segment was 4 times longer than those at the shallow segment. Therefore, the combination of electrical resistivity and optical borehole imaging methods can be effectively applicable to detect and monitor ground subsidence caused by underground cavities.

K-Ar Age of the Keumseongsan Volcanic Rocks and Mineralization in the Southeastern Part of Euiseong, Gyeongsangbuk-Do, Republic of Korea (경북·의성 동남부에 분포하는 금성산 화산암류의 K-Ar연대와 그주변의 광화시기)

  • Lee, Hyun Koo;Kim, Sang Jung;Yun, Hyesu;Choi, Wyi Chan;Song, Young Su;Itaya, Tetsumaru
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.445-454
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    • 1993
  • The Keumseongsan caldera is composed of the Cretaceous sedimentary rocks of the Gyeonesang Supergroup, volcanic rocks of the Yucheon Group and basic dykes. The Keumseongsan caldera is formed by subsidence of volcanic rocks, and arc fault developed late. Also, synistral strike-slip fault ($N60^{\circ}W$) developed. Volcanic rocks belong to subalkaline rocks and calcalkaline magma series. First tuffaceous breccia erupted before 71.4 Ma and cavity of magma chamber caused subsidence, which formed arc fault. Basaltic lava erupted at 71.4 Ma and residual fluids containing Fe, As, Pb, Zn and Cu metal elements built the Ohto deposits, which are dated to be 70.5 Ma based on K-Ar age for sericite. Tuffaceous breccia and tuff erupted between 70.5 and 67 Ma. When volcanic eruption became weakened, cavity in site of magma chamber brought subsidence. Rhyolite intruded and erupted at 67 Ma, and intrusive rhyolite intruded according to arc faults, also. Hydrothermal fluids containing Fe, As, Pb, Zn, Cu, Sb, Bi, Au and Ag formed the Tohyeon deposits. K-Ar age for sericite from the Tohyeon mine gives 66.0 Ma. Results of field exploration, geochemical analyses of volcanic rocks support mineralization possibility by volcanism. Especially, age of volcanism and mineralization are well in coincidence with results of K-Ar age dating. By these results, Ohto Cu mineralization is regarded to be associcated with basaltic rocks, while Tohyeon Cu mineralization with rhyolitic rocks.

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Mineralogy of Alunite from the Sungsan Mine (성산광산(聲山鑛山) 명반석(明礬石)의 광물학적(鑛物學的) 특성(特性))

  • Cho, Hyen Goo;Kim, Soo Jin
    • Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.81-89
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    • 1989
  • Alunite occurs as massive, cavity-filling and veinlets in the Cretaceous Hwangsan Formation in the Sungsan mine, Korea. It is a hydrothermal alteration product of rhyolitic tuffs, and associated with dickite, quartz and barite. The average chemical formula of alunite in the mine is $(K_{0.93}Na_{0.07})_{1.00}Al_{3.00}(SO_4)_{2.00}(OH)_6$. Atomic percentage of Na substituting for K in A site of the alunite structure varies from 5.9 to 9.2. Unit-cell volume and c dimension decrease with increasing Na atomic percentage. On the basis of thermal and high temperature XRD analyses, the decomposition of alunite into $KAl(SO_4)_2$ and $NaAl(SO_4)_2$ concomitant with the liberation of structural water (12.86%) occurs at about $550^{\circ}C$. The reconstruction of $KAl(SO_4)_2$ and $NaAl(SO_4)_2$ to $Al_2(SO_4)_3$, arcanite and thenardite, and the crystallization of ${\gamma}-Al_2O_3$ take place at about $720^{\circ}C$. The destruction of $Al_2(SO_4)_3$ structure takes place at about $760^{\circ}C$ removing 3/4 of total $SO_3$ (27.32%).

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