Geological Models and Stability Analysis

Geological models are built to serve various purposes (e.g. reserve evaluation, rock stability analysis, etc.). Several software packages dedicated to geological modeling and rock stability analysis are currently available. The paper presents the workflow for rock stability analysis performed with Slide3 software from Rocscience. An important step is to build the 3D geological model both from the perspective of geometry and rock properties. Doing this in Slide3 is not an easy task and for this reason, we turned to GEOVIA Surpac. The steps were exemplified for the northern area of the Ruschita marble deposit.