Тип публикации: статья из журнала
Год издания: 2020
Идентификатор DOI: 10.46544/AMS.v25i4.09
Ключевые слова: coal pillars, direct dumping, land saving, lateral mining method, surface mining
Аннотация: The presented paper deals with a continuous lateral method of closed mines' coal pillars surface mining and its advantages in land intensity, dust emissions, maximizing coal extraction, and overburden transporting costs. While inclined and steep coal seam strata in the pillars are widely exploited with land-and-cost intensive deepeПоказать полностьюning longitudinal mining method, this article substantiates the choice of modification of block-and-layerlayer continuous lateral mining method for different kinds of coal deposits. The aim of the study is to specify the modifications of the method proposed, define the stages of their carrying out, and emphasize the advantages over deepening longitudinal method of coal pillars surface mining. The basic principle of the proposed continuous lateral method of mining the coal pillars is limiting the final depth of quarry by the vertical height of the first floor of the underground mine workings. The continuous lateral mining method is detailed in the article in three modifications (for development coal seams strata of high and medium thickness, as well as distanced separate coal seams), which advantages are low land intensity and dust emission from the dump. Attention is also paid to the economic benefits of the block-and-layer continuous lateral method of mining coal pillars of closed mines, whereby the overburden transporting costs can be significantly reduced, while limitations of the proposed mining method concern specific sites of closed mines that make up a small part of the coal pillars extracted by surface mining today. © 2020 by the authors.
Журнал: Acta Montanistica Slovaca
Выпуск журнала: Vol. 25, Is. 4
Номера страниц: 542-562
Издатель: Elsevier Ltd