Mining or in situ disintegration of hard material – Processes – Stabilizing underground structure
Patent
1976-06-23
1977-04-12
Purser, Ernest R.
Mining or in situ disintegration of hard material
Processes
Stabilizing underground structure
299 18, 299 19, E21C 4100
Patent
active
040171221
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a method for mining minerals at depths where strip and deep mining methods are not practical or economical. After site layout, a plurality of generally parallel-spaced, elongated trenches are formed to expose the mineral bed. Continuous mining equipment is used to mine the minerals from the base of the trench. A conveyor is disposed in each trench to convey the mined minerals to one end of the site to a collection conveyor. After the minerals are mined from the base of the trench, mining tunnels are formed to the opposite sides of and generally perpendicular to each trench and adjacent one end thereof. The tunnels are extended distances at least several times the width of the trench and thereby form longwall mining surfaces. Longwall mining equipment is disposed in each tunnel and the minerals are mined by advancing the longwall mining equipment in a direction parallel to the trench and toward its opposite end. As the longwall mining equipment advances, the overburden caves behind the equipment. The minerals mined from the tunnels are conveyed to the trench conveyor and then lengthwise along the trench to the collection conveyor. After the longwall equipment has advanced the length of each trench completing the underground mining operation, the equipment is withdrawn, the trench is backfilled, and the surface is restored.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3301599 (1967-01-01), Heimaster
patent: 3467435 (1969-09-01), Mallander
patent: 3799613 (1974-03-01), Hendry
Acres Consulting Services Limited
Purser Ernest R.
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