Abstract:
This invention comprises two improved mining methods as such and combined with mining equipments for the mining and rock industries. The first, called the screw-mining-method, comprises benches which rotate around a turning-point area in a downwardly sloping screw shaped path. The benches are positioned radially to the turning-point area which contains a shaft or other transportation means between two points located at different altitudes. The second, called a method with horizontal-radial-rotating benches, operates similarly to the first method except that the benches rotate solely in a horizontal plane rather than in a downwardly sloping path. The method and equipments are adapted for use with material such as rock, ore, coal and any other commercially useful, as well as mineral materials excavated from the earth's crust.
Abstract:
A method for exposing sedimentary mineral deposits, such as coal, by shifting massive, unbroken blocks of overburden on a Bingham plastic lubricant film, such as a clay-water paste, wherein, the overburden blocks are severed on vertical planes, by trenching and/or fracturing and severed along a basal plane, above the mineral deposit, by hydraulic fracturing or undercutting, and a lubricant is injected along said basal plane; the overburden blocks are shifted into a space, created in front of said blocks, by excavation or by previously shifted blocks, from which space the mineral deposit has been removed and in which space a ramp of fill, lubricated with Bingham plastic material, has been prepared over which the overburden blocks will move, by impelling the overburden blocks down slope, by gravity, or by a hydrostatic load of mud dammed up behind said overburden blocks; and, following the shifting of blocks in a first row, the operation is continued by removal of the mineral deposit exposed behind the shifted row of blocks, severing and lubricating a next row of blocks, preparing new earthern ramps and shifting the newly formed blocks.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to the excavation or removal of large masses of earth situated on a downslope by means of landsliding the same on a layer or cushion of gaseous lubricant which is preferably generated or produced in situ. The plane of shear is determined and thereupon the subterranean rock is fractured by conventional hydrofracturing technique to produce a plane of shear substantially along the bottom of the earth mass. After the desired plane has been formed, a substantial quantity of liquid type explosive is forced into the fracture forming the shear plane and is thereupon detonated to produce a large quantity of gas which lifts the mass and serves as a lubricant so that its speed down slope accelerates very rapidly. Provision may be made for supplementing the gaseous lubricant layer as the mass moves toward the desired area of disposal. This may be accomplished by explosive charges located down stream and which are detonated while the mass is over them.
Abstract:
A method for slope geological disaster treatment and mineral resource recovery includes the following steps: S1: dividing a mountain top into a plurality of treatment sections and treatment segments; S2, selecting an easy-to-slide area at the upper portion of a first treatment segment and blasting an easy-to-slide body to make the easy-to-slide body roll down to a bottom of the slope; S3, forming a regular initial slope bench; S4, mining coal at the coal seam in a grouped mining adit manner, and laying grouting pipelines in the primary mining adits; S5, forming closed mining adits; S6, excavating secondary mining adits at intervals of the primary mining adits in sequence; S7, continuing mining in an adjacent second treatment segment in the same manner; and S8, continuing mining the first treatment segment of the second treatment section in the same manner.
Abstract:
A method and computing environment for mine productivity simulation and optimization is disclosed. Mine vehicle work efficiency is determined and stored in a mine vehicle model. A mine geographical layout is imported, and an operational mine model is used to simulate the movement of vehicles and material in the mine. The simulation yields a computation of mine output as a function of energy input to the mine machines. Mine configuration parameters may then be adjusted in the simulation, and real-world mines reconfigured, to meet performance targets.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein are a control method and system. The system includes: a deactivation control; a control centre controller for storing an association between the deactivation control and a selected set of mine sites; a plurality of autonomous drill rigs, each drill rig having a drill shutdown module to disable a function of the respective drill rig upon receipt of a deactivation command; and a mine site controller associated with each mine site, each mine site controller being coupled to all autonomous drill rigs located at the respective mine site with which the mine site controller is associated. Activating the deactivation control transmits a deactivation command from the deactivation control to the control centre controller. The control centre controller forwards the deactivation command to a mine site controller associated with each mine site in the set of mine sites for distribution to all autonomous drill rigs at that mine site.
Abstract:
A mine safety apparatus, and related method, that records movement data of a scene, visual images of the scene and correlates the movement data with the visual images. The apparatus comprises: a slope monitoring device that records location data in the scene and tracks the location data over time to identify movement and produce visual movement overlays; an image capture device that records a plurality of visual images of the scene from a location; and a processor that stitches the visual images into a panoramic image of the entire scene and for selected Points of Interest in the scene accurately determines a coordinate so that the visual movement overlays are correctly correlated with the Points of Interest.
Abstract:
A system for moving material from a first work area to a second work includes a material moving machine, a machine position sensor and a controller system. The controller system performs first material moving operations including determining a premature termination of a material stacking operation. The controller system performs additional material moving operations including instructing a material moving machine in response to the premature termination of a material stacking operation.
Abstract:
A system for mining site production planning includes a control system configured to specify a problem-solving technique and associated optimization problem for a mining site by setting production goals and priorities for each of loading tools, processors, production arcs, and materials of the mining site, sorting the production arcs in an order based on travel distances, modifying the order based on the production goals for each of the loading tools, processors, production arcs, and/or materials, and further modifying the order based on set priorities for the loading tools, processors, production arcs, and/or materials. In addition, target values are set for each of the loading tools, processors, and production arcs according to their order of the sorted production arcs. The control system is further configured to solve the optimization problem to produce production values for each of the loading tools, processors, and production arcs based on the target values.
Abstract:
A system for drilling to a position relative to a geological boundary in a geological formation includes a sensor pack for sensing parameters associated with a drilling operation carried out in the geological formation by a drill. A data storage module stores a geological model of the geological formation and data relating to the sensed parameters, including data relating to the geological boundary. A processor module monitors the drilling operation using the sensed parameters data to locate the position of a drill bit of the drill in the geological formation and its corresponding position within the geological model. The processor module generates an end point at a defined position relative to the geological boundary. A drill controller communicates with the processor module, the drill controller controlling operation of the drill to cause the drill to cease drilling when the end point has been reached.