Method of strip mining

Details Method of strip mining Method of strip mining

1977-05-18

1979-04-24

Pate, III, William

Mining or in situ disintegration of hard material

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With material-handling

299 19, E21C 4104

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041508521

ABSTRACT:
A strip mining technique wherein an active mining area is continuously moved across a mining ground. Overburden is removed from a leading end of the active mining area and conveyed by a conveyor system located on a high-wall of the mining area to a following end of that mining area. The conveyed overburden is dumped adjacent the active mining area following end to form a spoil bank which is landscaped and reclaimed.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1244203 (1917-10-01), Hawkesworth
patent: 2948520 (1960-08-01), Densmore
patent: 3975053 (1976-08-01), Kochanowsky
patent: 4017122 (1977-04-01), Simpson
Mining Engineering Hndbk., Robert Peele, et al., 3rd Edition, 1941, John Wiley and Sons, pp. 464-469.
Portable Crushers for Open Pit and Quarry Operations, B. J. Kochanowsky, Mining Engineering, Dec., 1960, pp. 1271-1274.

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