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Kestabilan lereng adalah faktor penting pada pekerjaan penambangan kuari karena berkaitan dengan keamanan dan keselamatan pekerja dan peralatan. Kestabilan lereng dipengaruhi oleh beberapa faktor di antaranya dimensi lereng, sifat fisik dan mekanik batuan, struktur geologi batuan serta faktor gaya luar yang bekerja pada lereng tersebut. Pada studi ini, kestabilan lereng diprediksi menggunakan analisis kinematika berdasarkan jenis gerakan material lereng, tanpa menganalisis gaya-gaya penyebab material lereng tersebut bergerak, sehingga yang diamati adalah fenomena struktur batuan berupa arah utama bidang diskontinuitas. Tujuannya adalah memprediksi kemungkinan arah dan terjadinya longsoran lereng. Faktor yang diperhitungkan hanya arah bidang diskontinuitas terhadap arah bidang lereng, sudut kemiringan bidang diskontinuitas dan sudut kemiringan bidang lereng. Hasil analisis menunjukkan beberapa lereng berpotensi longsor dengan tipe planar (plane failure) dan baji (wedge failure). Dari 10 lokasi pengukuran yang ditentukan secara acak, diketahui ada 4 lokasi berpotensi longsor planar 4 dan 5 lokasi longsor baji. Dalam hubungannya dengan arah dan kemiringan lereng, potensi tersebut terjadi di 4 lokasi pengukuran, sedangkan di lokasi lainnya diperkirakan aman karena tidak searah dengan bidang lereng. Kekar dan rekahan tidak menunjukkan arah dominan tertentu tetapi terdapat tendensi pada kwadran 2 dan 4.

Slope stability analysis is one of the important issues in open-pit mining. It is directly influences mining operation and cost. It also becomes a primary need to prevent slope failures that disturbing production activity. Failures in slope are controlled by factors such as slope dimension, geological structures, physical and mechanical properties of slope material, and the external forces acting on the slope. This paper presents the study results on the prediction of slope stability analysis by using kinematic analysis. The study was conducted to predict the potential slope failures that could occur at the selected mine site. The site was chosen on one of the locations of open pit coal mining PT. X in East Kalimantan. Some observation points are determined to show types of failure that can occur, such as plane and wedge failure. The results show that the potential failure of the planar type occurs in 8 locations while the wedge failure occurs in 7 locations. The potential failure occur in 5 observation points, i.e: Pit-1/OP-1, Pit-2/OP-1, Pit-3/OP-1, Pit-5/OP-1, Pit-5/OP-3. Other points are in stable condition because the plane’s direction is opposite the slope direction.

Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) is an energy manufacturing process whereby coal is gasified or chemically converted into a gas, in-situ. UCG has several benefits in terms of low capital cost, lower environmental impact, high energy density and long-term production certaint y. The objective of this study is to describe the advantages of implementing UCG technology in Indonesia based on UCG gas resources, product market, coal quality and availability of regulation to support UCG projects. UCG gas resources are estimated based on data of CBM resource and coal quality was examined by heat treatment. The size of conservatively estimated potential UCG gas manufacturing volume in Indonesia based on CBM data is 160 TCF which is greater than Indonesia’s natural gas reserves, namely 142.7 TCF. UCG gas markets are available in South Sumatera and East Kalimantan since the natural gas production in the two provinces is declining significantly. UCG in Indonesia is regulated under the mineral and coal regulatory regime, which brings some benefits, including more flexibility in the type of drilling rigs that can be used for UCG, compared to oil and gas drilling.