Mineshaft imaging using surface and crosshole 3D electrical resistivity tomography: A case history from the East Pennine Coalfield, UK

Chambers, Jonathan; Wilkinson, Paul; Weller, A.; Meldrum, Philip; Ogilvy, R.D.; Caunt, S.

doi:10.1016/j.jappgeo.2007.03.004

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“…GPR, in particular, is used extensively by archaeologists to characterize anthropogenic deposits on a site scale (Bladon et al 2011). Although limited coverage of suitable geophysical data prevents their widespread use in the systematic characterization of anthropogenic deposits, they may be of considerable value in resolving concealed deposits and the effects of anthroturbation including abandoned mine workings (Chambers et al 2007). …”

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An assessment of lithostratigraphy for anthropogenic deposits

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Price²,

Cooper³

et al. 2014

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An assessment of lithostratigraphy for anthropogenic deposits

Ford¹,

Price²,

Cooper³

et al. 2014

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“…Time-lapse geophysical surveys have been undertaken for other applications. For example, electrical resistivity surveys have been used to monitor active landslides (Wilkinson et al, 2010a), toxic leachate migration (Rucker et al, 2011), hydrological infiltration (Cassiani et al, 2009), aquifer exploitation (Chambers et al, 2007), and contaminated land (Wilkinson et al, 2010b). Time-lapse ground penetrating radar (GPR) has also been used for fluid migration studies (Birken and Versteeg, 2000), but GPR techniques typically do not have sufficient penetration to monitor mine-related subsidence.…”

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Long-term time-lapse microgravity and geotechnical monitoring of relict salt mines, Marston, Cheshire, U. K.

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The area around the town of Northwich in Cheshire, U. K., has a long history of catastrophic ground subsidence caused by a combination of natural dissolution and collapsing abandoned mine workings within the underlying Triassic halite bedrock geology. In the village of Marston, the Trent and Mersey Canal crosses several abandoned salt mine workings and previously subsiding areas, the canal being breached by a catastrophic subsidence event in 1953. This canal section is the focus of a long-term monitoring study by conventional geotechnical topographic and microgravity surveys. Results of 20 years of topographic time-lapse surveys indicate specific areas of local subsidence that could not be predicted by available site and mine abandonment plan and shaft data. Subsidence has subsequently necessitated four phases of temporary canal bank remediation. Ten years of microgravity time-lapse data have recorded major deepening negative anomalies in specific sections that correlate with topographic data. Gravity 2D modeling using available site data found upwardly propagating voids, and associated collapse material produced a good match with observed microgravity data. Intrusive investigations have confirmed a void at the major anomaly. The advantages of undertaking such long-term studies for near-surface geophysicists, geotechnical engineers, and researchers working in other application areas are discussed.

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“…Milligan copper gold porphyry deposit, Canada (Oldenburg et al, 1997), in shallow coal mine workings (Johnson, 2003), in the East Pennine Coalfield, UK (Chambers et al, 2007), in uranium mining sides (Legault et al, 2008;Ramalho et al, 2009) and in Landusky gold mine, Montana, USA (Rucker et al, 2009). Doyle (1990) also extensively discussed the gold exploration by electrical and VLF methods.…”

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