Monitoring for Small Operations, Tailings Facilities, Waste Dumps and Other Infrastructure Near Open Pits

The motivation, design, implementation, data management and results reporting of performance monitoring for open pit slopes has been the primary focus of these Guidelines. Specific topics described to this point include: monitoring methods, including how various monitoring instrumentation works; application of various types of instrumentation, including their capabilities and limitations; practical aspects of monitoring system requirements, support and operational considerations; data acquisition, data transmission and management, with emphasis on automation; data analysis and utilisation, including the value of integrating data for validation, results interpretation and reliability; and results reporting, including the effective escalation of actions required in the event that monitoring data indicate an incipient failure condition.