Slope collapse is a critical hazard in open-pit mines as it can be of any scale, small or large, and directly affect people, equipment, and production processes (Fig. 1). Therefore, analysis and calculation of slope stability are of vital importance for preventing disasters that occur because of such instabilities.
However, owing to the complexity of geological structures, slope stability is a challenging aspect for large open-pit mining projects10.
In recent years, more advanced computational techniques have been widely applied in many fields, particularly in the prediction of landslides including slope stability. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful tool capable of replacing traditional methods such as slope stability and landslide, blast-induced problems (e.g., ground vibration, air over-pressure, fly-rock, rock fragmentation, etc.), optimization in mine planning , and geology and geophysics.
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