ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY VARIATION IN COAL BEARING STRATA; SLOPE FAILURE ANALYSIS IN COAL MEASURES

Slope failure occurring at projected slope operations at open pit mines can lead the workers safety to dangerous positions. In some cases the rock disturbances which may be thought about that, they lead slope failures around the open pit mine operation develop physiological problems among the mine workers. The main aim of this work to determine if the conditions of critical slopes in open pit mines can be monitored through the electrical resistivity methods. The depths of sliding at selected slope were analyzed by using measured earth resistivity values for the defined purposes. Field studies at Ilgin Coal Mine near Konya city presented that electrical earth resisitivity measurements could be used to analyze the slope movements in coal mine.