The Lihir gold mine, located in Papua New Guinea, produces approximately 700,000 ounces
of gold per year. It is situated within a 16 km2 inactive and collapsed volcanic caldera with steep and inwardsloping topography, hydrothermally altered rocks, complicated geologic structures, and an active geothermal system. Precipitation averages 3.8 m/year. Dense tropical vegetation rules out traditional engineering geologic
mapping as a tool for slope hazard assessment around the expanding pit, making it difficult to incorporate information from geotechnical borings into a caldera-scale geological framework.
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GIS Weekly Magazine
Susan Smith
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