2158results about "Underground mining" patented technology

A method of determining a machine for operating at an actual site includes establishing a three-dimensional geographical model representing the actual site, determining at least one operation characteristic relating to the operation of each of a set of machines in relation to the model, and predicting at least one performance characteristic for each machine based on the at least one operation characteristic and at least one respective characteristic of the different machines. The method further includes comparing the predicted performance characteristics for the different machines, and determining a target machine based on the comparison.

A projector (10) for creating electrohydraulic acoustic and pressure waves comprising an energy source (21) (such as a capacitor) within approximately one meter of an electrode array (23). Larger projectors may be formed by arraying the projectors, and still larger projectors by arraying them.

The invention provides artificial soil and a method for land reclamation by the aid of gold mine tailing slag backfill exploitation regions. The method includes carrying out filling and compaction onthe tailing waste slag backfill exploitation regions; uniformly mixing various components of the optimally designed artificial soil with one another and ultimately covering tailing waste slag backfillsurfaces with the novel artificial soil with a certain thickness so as to effectively treat mine tailing. The artificial soil and the method have the advantages that the prepared artificial soil contains abundant nutrient components, the contents of organic matters can be increased, the gas permeability of the soil can be improved, and the artificial soil is excellent in water retention capacityand fertilizer preservation capability and suitable for growth of plants; organic thoroughly decomposed substances come from agricultural and forestry waste, are extensive in source and are easily available, accordingly, solid waste can be comprehensively utilized in a 'reduction, resource utilization and harmlessness' manner, and the artificial soil and the method conform to principles of circular economy; the land occupation problems of tailing ponds and the problems in the aspect of tasks of land reclamation of mined-out regions can be simultaneously solved by the aid of the artificial soiland the method, and the artificial soil and the method have large market spaces.

The invention discloses a sublevel shrinkage caving stage open afterwards filling mining method. In the earlier stage of stoping, caved ores are utilized to support surrounding rocks on a top tray, and in the later stage of stoping, a goaf area is filled with fillers to control ground pressure so as to achieve safe and efficient mining. Ore blocks are mined in two steps, mining blocks in step two are stoped after the mining blocks in step one are stoped and filled. After the ores are completely let out, the goaf area is filled with the fillers to control the ground pressure. Because the stoping modes of sublevel ore caving, sublevel shrinkage, final ore drawing and empty area afterwards filling are adopted, the mining method has large one-time filling amount and low cost; the method adopts middle-deep hole drilling and blasting and carry scraper ore removal, and the device has high level and large production capacity; the method has the advantages of large production capacity of the sublevel caving method and the stage open stope method, high recovery rate of the filling method, and earth surface protection; the safety is good, and drilling, ore removal and other operations are all carried out in a sublevel drilling and ore removal approach roadway; and the ores can be removed in advance, and the ores can be removed partially after the first sublevel is ready.

The present invention is directed to an excavator that is operable in manual and automatic modes and uses state machines to effect unit operations, rotationally offset swing actuators to rotate boom and cutter head, a fail safe hydraulic system to maintain gripper pressure in the event of a malfunction of the hydraulic system, differing position and pressure control functions in the hydraulic actuators, a kinematic module to effect pitch and roll adjustments, a cutting face profile generator to generate a profile of the excavation face, and an optimization module to realize a high degree of optimization of excavator operation.

Material is removed from a body of material, e.g. to create a bore hole, by plasma channel drilling. High voltage, high energy, rapid rise time electrical pulses are delivered many times per second to an electrode assembly in contact with the material body to generate therein elongate plasma channels which expand rapidly following electrical breakdown of the material causing the material to fracture and fragment.

There are provided high power laser and laser mechanical earth removing equipment, and operations using laser cutting tools having stand off distances. These equipment provide high power laser beams, greater than 1 kW to cut and volumetrically remove targeted materials and to remove laser affected material with gravity assistance, mechanical cutters, fluid jets, scrapers and wheels. There is also provided a method of using this equipment in mining, road resurfacing and other earth removing or working activities.

The invention relates to an efficient mining method for a thick metal ore body in slanting, comprising the following mining steps: constructing a transportation roadway outside a dike, constructing flat roadways for rock drilling by sections, constructing a cutting roadway, constructing a cutting well, constructing a cutting groove and reserving a temporary triangular ore pillar, constructing a trench, constructing a sector medium-deep hole and implementing blasting and ore removal, and recovering residual ore. The method realizes safe and efficient recovering of metal ore bodies with the inclination of 30 to 55 degrees and the average thickness of 4 to 15m by adopting a medium-deep hole blasting ore dropping valve under the circumstance without a filling condition, thereby further improving the mining recovery rate and the mining efficiency.

The invention discloses a house pillar changeable panel upward demix filling mining method. An ore body is divided into an ore house and an ore pillar arranged at intervals along the strike direction; a plurality of house pillars form a panel; a rock trackless preparation system is adopted and comprises a ramp, a rock slice drift, a demix ventilation connection and a rock concentrated ore removal winze; the mechanical upward demix filling mining method is adopted for mining, which mines a slice and fills the slice until the position required by the lower slice blasting compensation is reached. The backstopping order of the house pillars in the panel is the ore house first and then the ore pillar; all ore houses are subjected to upward backstopping at the same time; after a backstopping unit of the ore house is finished, the roof-contacted filling is carried out, and the mining of the ore house is temporarily stopped and the mining of the ore pillar is started; after two backstopping units of the ore pillar are finished, the roof-contacted filling is carried out, and the mining of the ore house is resumed; the abovementioned steps are repeated until the backstopping of the ore block is completed. The invention has the remarkable characteristics of improving the backstopping safety, reducing the resource dilution rate, lowering the support cost, increasing the enterprise profit, and the like.

A coal mining solid filling method comprises following steps: using the stacked solids on the ground as the filling materials for the working surface goaf, directly putting the solid filling materials from the ground to a belt conveyor in the underworkings by a perpendicular feeding well, transporting to the end of a coal face through the underground belt conveyor, reloading the solid filling materials to a solid filling mining conveyor hung under a back tail beam of a self-impacting type filling hydraulic support by a self-moving type filling material reloading machine. In the process of mining work, the coal is mined and the filling materials are filled on the bottom; and the solid filling materials are compacted by means of a compactor of the self-impacting type filling hydraulic support. The method solves the problem of coal compaction under the building and low coal recovery.

A borehole mining tool comprising a drill string having an inner pipe column and an outer pipe column. Water is forced under high pressure down an annulus between the outer pipe and inner pipe. A hydromonitor is attached to the end of the drill string. A nozzle in the hydromonitor directs the pressurized water into a stope or work area, thereby loosening the material to be mined. The slurry is educted from the mined area by the action of a venturi attached downstream of the hydromonitor. Water flow through the venturi creates a vacuum which draws the pregnant slurry from the work area up through the inner pipe to the surface. A plurality of tools may be attached to the hydromonitor by a connection comprising a gasket having an interference fit. The gasket allows quick connection and removal of a plurality of tools from the hydromonitor. A radar is include to provide an image of the stope being worked.

In the continuous mining method, ore body are divided into sections, subsections and mini-sections stepwisely along the ore vein; arranging mini-section drilling mine tunnels along the ore vein in the ore body bottom wall and connecting the mini-section tunnels with the main ramp way via linking tunnel; arranging support and filling tunnel along ore vein in the upper wall in the ore section; stoping from two ends to the central part of the bordroom via stepped continuous advance; drilling fanned holes with rock drill machine, breaking ore with rock explosive, charging with charging machine and combined elementary error detonation; filling finished stope via filling tunnel and filling dewatering device; and supporting crushed upper wall roof with deep anchor rod and steel fiber concrete. The present invention has high production capacity, high safety, less ore loss and low mining cost.

A method is described of regulating movement of an autonomous entity between a first zone (904) and a second zone (901), wherein the first and second zones each have an operation-defined geographical boundary within a defined geographical region. The autonomous entity is instructed to move into a transition zone (906, 907) that spans the first zone and the second zone, wherein the autonomous entity while located in the first zone is responsive to supervisory control of a first controller (912) associated with the first zone. The autonomous entity is registered with a second controller (910) associated with the second zone to enable the autonomous entity to respond to supervisory control of the second controller as the autonomous entity enters the second zone through the transition zone. The autonomous entity is de-registered from the first controller.

The invention relates to an intelligent type full-automatic combined coal mining system, which comprises a coal mining and loading device, a conveying device, a supporting device, and an equipment train, and is mounted in the working face and crossheading in the coal mine well. The coal mining and loading device is mounted on the conveying device, the coal conveying port of the conveying device is conveyed to the outside of the well or the coal bunker through a belt type conveyor in the crossheading, the supporting device is arranged behind the conveying device for supporting the top plate of the coal seam and linking with the conveying device, the equipment train comprises a central control chamber of a central control equipment, a starter, a power device, and a lifesaving cabin, the central control equipment monitors and controls the coordination operation of the devices, the equipment train, and the power device of the equipment train, the power device provide power source for the devices and the equipment train, and the equipment train moves freely in the crossheading with the feeding of the working faces. The invention improves system complete ability and execution efficiency, and has strong function, high intelligent degree, high safety, high production efficiency, and the like.

The invention belongs to the field of coal cutting and filling, in particular to a house pillar type cutting and filling method of the medium coal seam for controlling the movement deformation of the overlying rock, which is suitable for the coal face with the coal seam thickness more than 2 meters. The method comprises the following steps: determining the initial weighting interval L and the periodic weighting interval M of the main roof according to the main roof initial weighting interval theory; arranging the rooms and the coal pillars at intervals; and using the material with high expansibility in water during the filling according to the method comprising the following steps of mining the rooms, filling the empty rooms, mining the coal pillars and filling the empty zones of the coal pillars. The method provided by the invention can determine the most economical filling ratio through controlling the key layer to maximize the benefits; the method provided by the invention can control the movement deformation of the overlying rock absolutely within the allowed range when realizing the pulling without pillars, and realize the extremely small gentle uniform sinking of the ground; and the method provided by the invention can realize the mining of the coal resource with high recovery rate under any condition by using the material with high expansibility in water, and greatly enhance the security of coal face. When the rooms are mined, a plurality of coal face of rooms can be arranged at intervals to enhance the working efficiency.

The boundary tracking system has a plurality of signal transmitting devices located to represent at least one boundary of a work site. The boundary tracking system also has a receiving device configured to receive signals transmitted from one or more of the plurality of transmitting devices and to generate an output based on the received signals. The boundary tracking system also has a controller configured to determine a location of at least one of the plurality of transmitting devices based on the output from the receiving device.

The invention discloses a stepped on-pillar continuous filling mining method for deep well super high large breaking ore body panel. An ore body is divided into a front part and a rear part in a super high large breaking ore body center by an transportation roadway, then the front part and the rear part are respectively divided into a plurality of panels, no pillar exists between pillars, each panel is partitioned into a primary extracting drift and a second extracting drift, the panels in the front part are extracted at first and then the panels in the rear part are extracted, the front and rear panels are extracted in a stepped manner, each production technology is carried out in the same level, and procedures can not influence each other; after the stop back production is finished, the primary extracting drift is filled with cement and the secondary extracting drift is filled by classifying tailings while roof-contacted filling is ensured; and the primary extraction drift and the secondary extraction drift adopt high strength filling topping, and binding materials are added in the filling tailings so as to improve the compression strength of a topping layer. The invention has the characteristics of high extraction safety, small loss and dilution, high mechanical degree, large stope amount, large back production strength, high production capability, short back production time and the like.

The invention discloses a solid-filling coal mining method with two pre-excavating tunnels for advancing. A mining roadway adopts an arrangement mode that the pre-excavating tunnels are taken as air return and inlet roadways and a gob-side entry retaining roadway is taken as a roadway for transporting filling materials and coal; coal extraction and gob backfilling are carried out by a comprehensive mechanical solid-filling coal mining process; and according to the coal mining method, a mining sequence is propelled by making a filling coal mining work surface be back to the direction for transporting the coal to a mountain in a mining area. The pre-excavating tunnels are formed before the extraction of the work surface by tunneling, and the gob-side entry retaining roadway is formed by optimally designed filling bodies beside the roadway along with the implementation of advancing filling coal mining operation along the work surface. The coal mining method is simple in process and technically and completely realizes coal milling without pillars, and the resource extraction rate of the coal is high. The coal mining method can not only solve the technical problems that a draw-back-type down-mining and up-filling work surface cannot ensure a filling effect during a filling milling process of a mine with shortage of resources, but also materialize the comprehensive mechanical solid-filling coal mining of mines with limited geological conditions by virtue of an advancing up-milling and down-filling work surface.

The invention discloses a method for filling solid and recovering and fully mechanizing room type coal pillars, comprising the following steps of: reinforcing and supporting a coal pillar and a coal room top plate in a pre-recovering room type coal pillar area and suspending and hanging a wind curtain to form a solid substance haulage drift and a coal haulage drift which are connected with a large haulage drift; recovering the coal pillars by the conventional method, starting matching equipment after cutting a coal interval and transporting the solid substances to a goaf from the ground for filing and tamping; and cutting coal of next coal interval and filling the goaf, repeating the steps until finishing the recovery of all room type coal pillars. The method not only solves the problems that unstable coal pillar causes the safety accidents due to the superposition of stress of the front part and two sides of a workface because of the recovery of the traditional coal pillar, but also eliminates the potential safety trouble caused by the hurricane, large-area sinking and the like caused by the spontaneous combustion of the room type coal pillar and the large-area caving of hard top plates in the goaf. The invention has simple method, high production efficiency, low cost and over 85 percent of the recovery rate of the coal pillars.

The present invention is directed to a mining method for steeply dipping orebodies. In the method, an excavator 152 is tethered to a deployment system 120 by one or more cables/umbilicals 144. The excavator 152 excavates slices 172a-h of the orebody 100 by moving generally up-dip, down-dip or a combination thereof. The excavator can be automated.

Systems for drilling operations, the systems including: a drilling rig with a base; a mast movably connected to the base of the drilling rig; a drawworks system for raising and lowering the mast; a drawworks control system for controlling the drawworks as it raises and lowers the mast; a remote control system for remotely controlling the drawworks control system so that the mast can be raised and lowered by personnel spaced apart from the drilling rig; and, in certain aspects, the rig including a substructure which can be raised, and lowered by remote control. This abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure and is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims, 37 C.F.R. 1.72(b).

A band filling stoping mining method effectively solves the problems in the prior stoping mining of a 'three-low' coal bed, such as the sedimentation and distortion of the earth surface, the low recycling rate of coal and charcoal resources, the existence of safety hazards, etc. The method comprises the following steps: a transporter and a coal mining machine are laid on the working face of the mining area; in the direction perpendicular to the direction of the transporter movement, a timbering device which is composed of a hydraulic bracket of the working face, a side molding board bracket for filling beside the lane and a back molding board bracket for filling beside the lane, and connected with the connecting head of the transporter is arranged; after the brackets are pushed along the working face, paste concrete is injected through a pipeline into a filling mold cavity enclosed by the brackets, so as to form a band-shaped filling wall which is supported between the top plate above the goaf and the bottom plate of the coal bed. By the method, safe and convenient mining operation is ensured; the recycling rate for coal and charcoal is increased; meanwhile, the sedimentation and distortion of the overlying strata of the coal bed and the earth surface can be controlled in a very small range of deformation permitted by a building, thereby minimizing the amount of gentle sedimentation of the earth surface, and protecting buildings and attachments on the earth surface.

A method and apparatus for the hydraulic removal of bitumen from a tar sand deposit comprises forming a borehole into the tar sand deposit and securing a casing into the borehole. Into the casing is inserted a mining tool having a water/diluent channel and a slurry exit channel. Through the casing the borehole is charged with crushed aggregate. At the lower end of the tool are nozzles through which high pressure hot water/diluent is injected as a jet from the water/diluent channel into the tar sand deposit causing a cavity to form in the tar sand deposit. The heat of the water/diluent jets and dissolving action of the diluent softens the tar sand contacted and the impact of the jets and the scouring action of the aggregate, as impinged upon by the jets, removes the tar sand from the surface of the developing cavity into a water phase. A bitumen/diluent phase rises to the surface of the water phase and is removed from the cavity through the casing. A water sand slurry at the bottom of the developing cavity is removed from the slurry exit channel where sand is subsequently removed and the water is recovered and reintroduced back into the process along with makeup water and diluent. Water temperature and pressures are controlled to optimize the hydraulic mining process.

Methods for evaluating drill pattern parameters such as burden, spacing, borehole diameter, etc., at a blast site are disclosed. One method involves accumulating the burden contributed by successive layers of rock and matching the accumulated rock burden to a target value for a borehole having a length related to the average height of the layers. Another method relates to varying drill pattern parameters and characteristics to match blast design constraints, including the substitution of one explosive material for another by the proper balance of materials and/or output energies to the associated rock burden. Analysis of deviations from target rock burdens and corrective measures are disclosed, as well as cost optimization methods. The various methods can be practiced using an appropriately programmed general purpose computer.

The invention discloses a method for determining a reasonable width of a gob-side entrydriving narrow coal pillar; theoretical calculation, numerical simulation, field actual measurement and other various means are adopted to determine the reasonable width of the coal pillar, a reasonable gob-side entrydriving position is determined, a fracture line of a main roof is guaranteed to be located at the side, close to a goaf, of the narrow coal pillar, long-term stability of the narrow coal pillar and a roadway is ensured, on one hand, the roadway latter maintenance work amount and maintenance costs are substantially reduced, on the other hand, safe and high-efficiency stoping of a working face is ensured. Therefore, the method for determining the reasonable width of the narrow coal pillar has relatively high theoretical significance and practical value.

The invention discloses applicable classification method for mining under the shallow bedrock of thin seam keeping water conditions. Apply to thin seam overlying shallow bedrock aquifer water loose the protection of water resources. At first according to the feature of structure or Shallow bedrock, the height of leading water crevasse under different mining height is analyzed and calculated. The estimate formula: HL=9.29M+10.6 can be used to determine the height HL of leading crevasse water under the shallow bedrock of thin seam to the different mining height M. The mining waterproofing security coal rock pillar protector thickness of the thin bedrock shallow submersion coal bed long well working surface is 10 m. According to the classification situation of loose water-bearing stratum water body, the bedrock thickness which is needed is determined under the condition of different mining height. According to classification situation and mining height, mining is separated into reinsurance water mining according to the bedrock thickness. This method has good water resources protection effect, is safe in production, and has high coal resource returns-ratio.

The invention discloses a medium-length hole mining method in multiple blasting free faces of high dipping thin veins. The medium-length hole mining method is characterized by comprising the steps of: arranging ore blocks along the trend of a core body, dividing the ore body into a medium section and a segment in the altitude; drilling a gate way in the segment and arranging in veins along the ore body; arranging a flat ore removal structure on the bottom along the veins; arranging a cutting raise from one ends of the ore blocks, arranging a manway at the other ends of the ore blocks; and upwards and downwards punching forwards leaning medium-length holes, with the cutting raise as free faces, and blasting caved ores in the segment by multiple free faces, and withdrawing the ore centrally at the bottom. The medium-length hole mining method has the remarkable characteristics of high mining safety, little resource dilution rate, good production continuity, high level of mechanization, low cost, high efficiency, low labor intensity and the like.

The invention discloses a method for preventing and controlling rockburst by an artificial space defect body. Firstly, one or more pressure relief roadways are excavated in the high stress dangerous area of ​​rockburst, and three boreholes are drilled in the head of the pressure relief roadway. The boreholes are drilled along the centerline of the roadway, and the holes on both sides are drilled obliquely forward at an angle of 30° based on the centerline of the roadway, so that the coal seam can be relieved by deep hole blasting; Drilling, and finally blasting from the head of the roadway to the back of the roadway. The invention changes the stress distribution by creating a large defect space in the high-stress coal body, the stress is far away from the roadway, the coal body around the roadway is destroyed, the energy is greatly released, and the risk of impact is fundamentally reduced.

The invention discloses a novel mining method of gently-inclined thin and medium thickness ore bodies. According to the method, ore bodies in one stope are stoped by dividing the stope into two stope areas through steps: firstly, stoping is performed at the stope area (1) by using a pillarless sublevel caving method: the ore bodies are directly caved in single sublevel by using medium-length blastholes; a certain empty area formed after ore removal is used as a free surface for stoping of the stope area (2); then, the stoping is performed at the stope area (2) by using a blasting force carrying mining method; fan-shaped medium-length blastholes are arranged in a manner perpendicular to the ore body tendency, and are filled with powder according to sections, the decking parts are the parts from the lower disc boundaries of the ore bodies to the hole bottoms; the empty area formed during the stoping of the stope area (1) is used as a free surface for blasting row by row; ores in the stope area (2) are thrown in the empty area by using the blasting force. The method integrates the pillarless sublevel caving method and the blast force carrying mining method, so that the supporting difficulty and the workload are reduced, the operation is safer, the mining cost is low, and the labor productivity is high.

The invention discloses an assessment method for predicting underground rock burst danger of a coal mine, and belongs to assessment methods for predicting the rock burst danger. Danger levels of burst mine pressure include rock-burst-free danger level A, weak rock burst danger level B, medium rock burst danger level C and strong rock burst danger level D; and accordingly, corresponding preventive measures are formulated. Weight of affections, of geological factors and mining factors of mining areas, on the rock burst is analyzed synthetically; danger indexes of the geological factors and the mining factors are calculated respectively, and the maximum value of the danger indexes is taken as a final composite index of the rock burst danger; and accordingly, danger levels, states and preventive measures of the rock burst of the mining areas are determined. The geological factors analyzed and assessed by a composite index method include rock burst occurrence history, mining depth and distance between a hard thick rock stratum in an overlying fissure zone and a coal bed; and the mining factors include pressure relief degree of a protective layer, horizontal distance between a working surface and a coal column remained from upper preventive layer mining, and relations between working surfaces and adjacent gobs.