“…Because of its extensive use in the determination of in situ stresses in rock mass at great depths, the hydraulic fracture test (Haimson 1978;Bjarnason et al, 1989;Tunbridge et al, 1989;Ljunggren et al, 2003;Haimson and Cornet, 2003;Zhao et al, 2005;Subrahmanyam, 2019;Singh and Sahoo, 2000;Gowd et al, 1986;Ulf Lindfors, 2007;Qitao et al, 2016) was utilised to study the itabirite rocks found in the Brazilian Ferriferous Quadrilater. In addition, the study interpreted the borehole images, because it was demonstrated that this is important to determine the effects of hydrofracturing on the in situ stress measurement (Li et al, 2013;Wang, 2018;Han et al, 2020).…”