Estimation of the risk for mine induced seismicity in large scale mining in the Garpenberg Mine

A few years ago a licentiate thesis was presented by K. Larsson on seismicity in Swedish mines compared with experienced seismicity abroad. This thesis was mainly focused on cut and fill mining and sublevel caving methods. Recently the Swedish mining company New Boliden started implementing transverse open stoping in the Lappberget ore body in...