Therefore, two thirds of the mines are mined by the open-pit mining mode. China is the world's largest coal producer and consumer. In 2015, the coal output in China is 3.75 billion tons, accounting for 47% of the world's total. However, most of the open-pit coal mines are distributed in the ecologically fragile areas of the Loess Plateau.
Coal miners use two primary methods to remove coal. Surface mining is often used when coal is less than 200 feet underground. In surface mining, large machines remove the topsoil and layers of rock known as overburden to expose coal seams. Mountaintop removal is a form of surface mining where the tops of mountains are …
In the field of mining engineering, many scholars have introduced successful MCDM applications such as equipment selection for open pit mines [9,10], drilling technology investment analysis ...
Open-pit mines are used when deposits of commercially useful minerals or rocks are found near the surface; that is, where the overburden (surface material covering the valuable …
Coal is still a part of energy generation worldwide and has a significant role in the sustainable development of countries. The amount of shallow coal deposits is getting scarce, making efficient underground …
The most common types of mining equipment vary depending whether the work is being carried out above or below ground or mining for gold, metals, coal or …
The Haerwusu open-pit coal mine in China, which has an annual output of over 35 Mt, was selected as a case study. As this mine is located in a typical cold region that accounts for over 90% of China's open-pit coal production, serious dust pollution occurs during winter mining due to the long period of severe cold, low precipitation, high ...
Open pit mining is widely used with metallic ore bodies (aluminum, bauxite, copper, iron), and nearly all nonmetallic (coal, …
Abstract: In the open-pit mines, in order to improve. productivity, they used to large numbers of heavy. equipment. Due to the huge investments involved, no. mine can afford to have inve sted then ...
Underground Mining equipment list. Soft rock mines, such as coal, do not require the use of explosives for extraction. These rocks can be cut with the mining tools provided by modern technology. Soft …
Mining can happen at the surface or underground. The environment and type of material mined dictate the form of mining required and the equipment used. Both surface and underground mining have three main steps: 1. Extraction:This involves drilling, blasting, or digging to …
2.1 Cost Categorization. In this paper, costs in open pit mines are categorized into four groups: (1) capital costs, (2) operating costs, (3) general and administrative (G&A) costs, and (4) fixed ...
M. Albert Evans Raja Venkat Ramani. Coal mining, extraction of coal deposits from the surface of Earth from underground. Coal has been used since the Bronze Age, 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, and was the basic energy source that fueled the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Operation. Real-time seismic monitoring of the rock mass occurs via a permanent surface-and-underground installation of seismometers (consisting of a combination of seismic sensors and data acquisition units), which communicates with the central computer located on surface. The integrated GPS timing module is used so that recorded seismic data ...
Coal resources have always been in a very important position in the structure of nonrenewable energy in the world [1,2].China is the main coal energy consumer in the word and coal mining has made great contributions to local economic development for years [].According to the statistics, seventy-five percent of the added …
The main coal seam of the Zhundong Open-pit Coal Mine is a huge inclined coal seam with a thickness of 70 m, and the tendency of the coal seam is to gradually decline from east to west.
The trend for using larger equipment in open pit mining to achieve cost effectiveness raises the question about the optimum economic point of scale in the current world of globalization. ... 2002. "Expert system for …
There are 5 main types of surface mining, which are used in various degrees and for different resources. These mining categories are: strip mining, open-pit mining, mountaintop removal, dredging and high wall mining. All methods of surface mining will remove the waste material, or overburden, above the desired resource.
The Pingshuo mining area is located in Shuozhou city, northern Shanxi Province (Fig. 1), in the eastern part of the Loess Plateau.The Pingshuo open-pit coal mine is the largest open-pit coal mining area in China, covering an area of approximately 400 km 2 and comprising the Antaibao, Anjialing and East open-pit mines, with …
Spraying water is commonly used for dust suppression in open-pit mines (Peng et al. 2019).A more economical approach is to spray a mixture of a suitable dust suppressant and water (Wang et al. 2019).But some open-pit mines in environmentally vulnerable areas of Northwest China are extremely short of water (Zhou et al. 2016; Hu …
Highwall mining is a method that involves using a continuous highwall miner system (CHM) to extract coal from the remaining coal seams, which has proven to be an effective and safe method for extracting coal after open-pit mining. However, application cases globally have shown that the feasibility of highwall mining in open-pit coal mines …
1 Introduction. A prominent place is held by open-pit coal mines in the worldwide coal industry. The share of open-pit coal mining in major coal-mining nations like the United States, Australia, Russia, and India is more than 50%, and some countries reach more than 90% (He et al., 2006; Zheng et al., 2014; Wang et al., 2022).The main …
At present, the coal seam exploited in large open-pit mines in China is mostly near-horizontal coal seam, and the internal dumping technology in the mining area is widely adopted (Chen and Wu 2016; Wang et al. 2019; Wu et al. 2020; Zhao et al. 2020; Lelek and Kulczycka 2021).In the traditional open-pit mining design, the transportation …
Open-pit mining is the process of extracting rock or minerals from the earth through their removal from an open pit or borrow. Figure 8.8. Open-pit mine [16]. Surface mining is usually used to develop coal seams and deposits of many other minerals, but their feasibilities vary with the nature of the body ore.
High performance drilling is key to successful open-pit mining, with two principal areas of operation: blasthole drilling, and drilling presplit holes that help to enhance pit wall stability. These operations …
In open-pit mining of the coal seam, several benches are established in both the overburden strata and the coal seam. The open-pit method is generally practiced where …
The system is essentially a serial process, and the cooperation between the pieces of equipment will seriously affect the performance of the system, so it is particularly important to study the …
Open-pit mining, or opencast mining, is a surface mining technique used for large-scale operations. It involves extracting minerals from a pit by removing waste rock and overburden. Commonly used for minerals like copper, gold, and iron ore, requires heavy equipment such as trucks and shovels to efficiently extract the ore.
Underground mining. In underground coal mining, the working environment is completely enclosed by the geologic medium, which consists of the coal seam and the overlying and underlying strata. Access to the coal seam is gained by suitable openings from the surface, and a network of roadways driven in the seam then facilitates the installation of ...
Draglines. Electric Rope Shovels. Hydraulic Mining Shovels. Motor Graders. Off-Highway Trucks. ® Equipment for Every Phase of the Open-Pit Mining Process. Our long …
Backhoes – Backhoes can be wheel or track-mounted with an articulated boom and an inward-facing bucket for digging and scaling jobs. This type of equipment can range in size and is often used throughout the mine for a variety of digging functions. Primary Functions: Digging holes, foundations, and trenches.
List of equipment used in opencast coal mining are: 1. Bulldozer 2. Craper 3. Ripper 4. Tractor Shovel 5. Dipper Shovel 6. Stripper Shovel 7. Pull Shovel or Hoe 8. Dumpers or …
The particulate pollution in the open-pit coal mines of China is particularly severe in winter. The aim of this study is to understand the pollution characteristics of particulate matter (PM) in winter and provide a basis for the prevention and control of particulate pollution. We took the problem of PM concentration at the bottom of the …
The excavation and haulage system of an open-pit coal mine is made up of two primary pieces of equipment: shovels and trucks. Together, they work to dig ore or waste material out of the ground and transport it to the required destination (Darling, 2011, Westcott et al., 2009).Fig. 1 represents the system as a network of roads that the trucks …
Coal seam that is thinner than a certain value is defined as thin coal seams (TCS). It commonly occurs in China as it covers 84.2% of the mining area. This situation is even severe in China's large surface coal mines, in which TCS accounts for 10–50% of the total reserve. Most TCS cannot be feasibly mined due to the working conditions of …
Methods for estimating productivity and costs, and dependent equipment selection process, have needed to be increasingly reliable. Estimated productivity and costs must be as accurate as possible in reflecting actual productivity and costs experienced by mining operations to accommodate the long-term trend for diminishing commodity prices, For …
Open pit mining is defined as the method of extracting any near surface ore. deposit using one or more horizontal benches to extract the ore while dumping. overburden and tailings (waste) at a ...
It owns a large open-pit coal mine with an area of 466.5 hectares. For a long time, the mining sector faced problems such as backward management, intensive labor, and low production efficiency. ... Digital management of mining equipment; Using smart sensors, the location of various equipment in the mine can be synchronized to the cloud ...