Today I will be discussing Underground mining techniques used in Coal Mining In Underground mining workers go inside the Earth s crust through a series of opening present in the Earths crust naturally or man made These cracks are used to access and transport material Secondary services are provided for human and material transportation
Get Price• A raise is underground opening driven upward • A stope is an underground excavation made by removing ore from the host rocks Development of stopes often starts from blasting a slot which is a steeply dipping to vertical excavation at one boundary of the ore body Mining then continues by blasting rings or slides of the orebody into the slot
Get PriceBlock caving has the lowest associated operational expenditure of the underground hard rock mining methods and it comes closest to the average operating expenditure of an open pit operation Stoping as currently implemented is the secondmost expensive mining method
Get PriceIn this case underground mining will be used Because of the confined nature of underground mining the extraction process is different Mining methods for underground mining include Blast mining Blast mining just as it sounds utilizes explosives to remove hard rock layers loosen rocks and open up underground mining areas Room and
Get PriceThis mining technique gets its name from the layout of the mine which divides the ore into large sections or blocks To begin an underground tunnel is undercut which involves digging the tunnel beneath the ore body Next the separate blocks are blasted from beneath so that they fracture
Get PriceLow grade friable ore deposits Iron copper nickel and gold mines Deposits where both the ore and rock are breakable It is widely believed that surface mining is more productive than most underground mining methods with the exception of block caving which has a comparable rate of productivity Previous Post
Get PriceCoal is the largest portion of underground mining It represents 60 percent of global coal production Besides coal underground can be used to mine gold or copper In underground mining there are two methods bord and pillar and longwall Bord and pillar Bord and pillar is the oldest mining method A grid of tunnels is created in the areas
Get PriceUnderground access is those mining methods where accessing into the underground consists of adits declines or shafts These three underground access methods are famous for underground mines These three generally start from the surface of the ground
Get PriceUnderground metal mining methods Safdar Ali Mining Methods Venkat Masabattula Similar to Underground mining methods 20 Drilling in Surface BIT Sindri Square set stoping Charles Jojo Besitan Trenching Excavation Shivananda Roy Cut fill mining method Md Jarjis Rahman Underground Mining System Question Pattern and Answer
Get PriceUnderground coal mining mainly include the process of drift slope and shaft mining and actual mining methods include longwall and room and pillar mining Drift Mines enter the side of a hill horizontally and mine the coal within the hill Slope mines usually begin in a valley bottom and a tunnel slopes down to the coal surface
Get PriceAs underground mining is a vast field of expertise and has different techniques employed it is necessary to be aware of the potential dangers before embarking upon it The typical mining technique involves driving heavy machines underground breaking up the rocks and throwing them into a vat or tank below ground
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Get PriceUnderground soft rock mining is a group of underground mining techniques used to extract coal oil shale potash and other minerals or geological materials from sedimentary soft rocks [1]
Get Pricesections discuss mine design considerations stopes requiring minimum support includes room and pillar mining and sublevel stoping stopes requiring some additional support other than pillars includes shrinkage stoping cut and fill stoping undercut and fill mining timber supported system top slice mining longwall mining and shortwall …
Get PriceUNDERGROUND MINING METHODS 15 MINERAL PROSPECTING AND EXPLORATION specialities the main one being to de tect the presence of metals in the top soil cover By taking a large number of samples over an extended area and analyzing the minute contents of each metal regions of interest are identi fied
Get PriceMethods for Underground Mining The choice of mining method is influenced by the shape and size of the ore deposit the value of the contained minerals the composition stability and strength of the rock mass and the demands for production output and safe working conditions which sometimes are in conflict
Get Priceunderground mining methods soft rock mining methods blast mining shortwall mining coal skimming or sink and float method hard rock mining methods stoping room and pillar
Get PriceUnderground mining hard rock Underground hard rock mining refers to various underground mining techniques used to excavate hard minerals such as those containing metals like gold copper zinc nickel and lead or gems such as diamonds In contrast soft rock mining refers to excavation of softer minerals such as coal or oil sands Mine Access
Get PriceOre is drawn from the level below Overhand or back stoping Starting stopes Drift stoping Cutting out or lead stoping Raise stoping Longitudinal back flat back or long wall stoping Rill cut stoping Saw tooth back stoping Shrinkage stoping Combination stoping Breast stoping Side stoping Sublevel stoping Square set stoping
Get PriceUnderground Mining Underground mining has the potential for tunnel collapses and land subsidence Betournay 2024 It involves large scale movements of waste rock and vegetation similar to open pit mining Most modern mining techniques have high water demands for extraction processing and waste disposal Wastewater from these processes
Get PriceThis method of underground ore mining is also considered economical 3 Cut and fill method It is a method we use exclusively for steep and irregular mining Namely when the conditions are such that the soil deep below is slope or irregular then we use this method which involves mining ore in particular slanted slices
Get PriceSmooth wall blasting is the most commonly used technique in underground mining and it was developed in Sweden The smooth wall line is composed around the final excavation line underground where the holes are lightly loaded to reduce the amount of overbreak The explosives are also decoupled from the sides of the borehole
Get PriceThe underground mining techniques we use consist of room and pillar slim vein stoping and large scale mechanized mining Room and pillar mining is a fashion of mining in which tunnels are pushed in a chessboard sample with big rectangular pillars among them which might be step by step reduced away because of the proceeds of the painting We use this for mining coal
Get PriceThis method of mining allows for the extraction of salts and metals from an ore body without resorting to conventional mining methods such as underground mining There are plenty of advantages to using in situ mining It s the most environmentally way to mine ores and involves minimal to no risk for both the workers and the communities
Get PriceWorking safety in underground mining is related to blast operations rock conditions and mining methods The potential for roof problems rock spalling rock bursts rock falls and brow damage is rife It is a common problem that rock blasting in underground mines makes local underground water contaminated The problem stems from two reasons
Get PriceAn excellent teaching tool and source book Techniques in Underground Mining is a must for any mining student or engineer ISBN 10 0873351630 ISBN 13 978 0873351638 Publisher Society for Mining Metallurgy and Exploration Publication date September 1 1998 Language English Dimensions x x inches Print length 823 pages See all details
Get PriceOnce a decision has been made to go underground the specific mining method selected depends on the size shape and orientation of the ore body the grade of mineralization the strength of the rock materials and the depths involved For example if the ore is very high grade or carries a high price then a higher cost method can be used
Get PriceOpen pit mining method is one of the surface mining methods that has a traditional cone shaped excavation and is usually employed to exploit a near surface nonselective and low grade zones deposits It often results in high productivity and requires large capital investments low operating costs and good safety conditions
Get PriceThis approach is still used and it is relatively common in underground mining With drill and blast a miner clears an area out using explosives such as ANFO or Emulsion This breaks up the ore while giving them greater access to the area Believe it or not explosives have been used as part of the mining process since 1627
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