Boots, Pick, and Keyboard: Memoirs of a Geological Engineer in the Mining Industry - Revised Edition

I was in charge of slope stability for Newmont's Carlin operations in northern Nevada. Mine operations had been using the area at the base of the east Blue Star pit slope as a parking area for their haul trucks. I was informed of apparent movement of some of the monitoring prisms on that slope. After several weeks of additional monitoring, the prism movement rate accelerated to the point where it became clear the pit slope would soon fail. I notified operations to move their haul trucks imm...