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Development of hydraulic fracturing for studying the stressed state of a rock mass

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Translated from Fiziko-Tekhnicheskie Problemy Razrabotki Poleznykh Iskopaemykh, No. 1, pp. 3–20, January–February, 1994.

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Kurlenya, M.V., Leont'ev, A.V. & Popov, S.N. Development of hydraulic fracturing for studying the stressed state of a rock mass. J Min Sci 30, 1–15 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02048767

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