Technological improvements in geotechnical mapping, modeling, and monitoring now allow a digital twin to be developed and maintained in parallel with mining operations. That is, the routine use of aerial photogrammetry, semi-automatic rock mass characterization, three-dimensional slope stability modeling and ground-based interferometric synthetic aperture radar monitoring allow near real-time comparison of modelled and realized ground conditions. This is critical for reconciling the effectiveness of geotechnical models for predicting future slope stability (or instability). This paper presents a semi-brittle slope failure case study from Pueblo Viejo gold mine which was managed using a digital twin approach. The near real-time comparison of the three-dimensional model with observed slope conditions allowed critical structures to be added to the geotechnical model as mining progressed. This led to the identification of a high-risk area that would not have been identified if the digital twin was not implemented & maintained during mining.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
M. Bautista, J. C. Cobi\u00e1n, J. L\u00f3pez, N. Bar, N. Coli, F. Coppi, A. Gaich, M. P\u00f6tsch, M. Baumgartner, A. McQuillan. 2023\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"sector":[17],"class_list":["post-913","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","sector-shapemetrix"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3gsm.at\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3gsm.at\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3gsm.at\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3gsm.at\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3gsm.at\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sector?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}