12th Australia - New Zealand Geomechanics Conference, Wellington, 2015
This paper presents a review of the Golden Cross Landslide near Waihi 17 years after its successful stabilisation by use of major drainage and earthworks. The landslide is interesting because of its size,
2100 m long, 500 m to 1000 m wide and up to 145 m deep, and supports a large tailings dam retaining approximately 1.7 million cubic metres of tailings from the previous gold mining operation. Show more…The paper includes a review of historic and current landslide movement rates (from inclinometer and GPS data), piezometric data and presents an assessment of the ongoing effect of the stabilisation measures. Comment is also made on the long term relative effectiveness of the various stabilisation
measures from the nearly 20 years of data available. Show less…
