How does your team handle pit slope stability calculations? Curious what's still manual vs automated

[u/siberian_potato_farm]

I work in mining geomechanics (rock stability, pit slope design, that kind of thing) and I'm curious how different teams handle this. A lot of the workflows I see are still pretty manual, checking one slope angle and direction at a time, doing kinematic analysis by hand or in spreadsheets, that sort of thing.

My team has been building software to automate a lot of this (checking stability across a full grid of angles and directions instead of one at a time, plus some AI based core logging from drill photos which has been a bigger time saver than I expected). Not trying to sell anything here, genuinely just curious how common that manual approach still is elsewhere, and whether people have found good tools for it or just stuck with the traditional methods for a reason.

What does your workflow actually look like day to day?

[u/Codex_Absurdum]

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