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During stoping in a high rock stress regime, the failure of production drillholes and drives through breakouts poses serious problems in terms of the deployment of men and machinery, and threatens the very continuance of the particular stoping method. In order to continue extraction, it becomes imperative to study the behaviour of the breakouts in the field (as laboratory investigations cannot be...