Center out Mining

 No rib pillars
 Stress dispersed from
the mining area to
the far field
 Mining within the
shadow of the
previous stope Legend: Red is mined out
Grey is future mining
Stress dispersed from the mining
area to the far field
Top Down Mining

 No crown pillar Mined out stopes

created Top sills

 Development in de-
De-stressed zone
stressed zone from
mined out stope Future stopes
above
 Technically feasible
because of shotcrete
development Bottom sills
Bottom Sill Development

 Inverse V shape
development
sequence pushes
stress in far field Inverse V Development
 Lagging sill in shadow Sequence

of leading sill
 De-stress sill pillar to
eliminate potential for
De-stress blasting holes in sill pillar
stress buildups