Roof And Pillar Mining

Determination of the pillar and roof optimum parameters for new mining technology with continuous miner was the main aim of the present work.

Roof and pillar mining.

The conventional calculation formulas and conditional thickness meth ods were used to determine the room and pillar mining system parameters which guarantee a long term stability. Other articles where room and pillar mining is discussed. Unstable pillars can result in rock sloughing from the pillar and can lead to the collapse of the roof if one or more pillars should fail. The most common mining system is room and pillar.

Pillar and roof span stability are two essential prerequisites for safe working conditions in room and pillar mines. To do this rooms of ore are dug out while pillars of untouched material are left to support the roof overburden calculating the size shape and position of pillars is a complicated procedure and is an area of. Room and pillar is an underground mining method that has applications to a wide variety of hard rock deposits worldwide. It is commonly classified as an open stoping method meaning that development involves mining out underground cavities while leaving the surrounding un mined waste or ore as primary support.

In this system a series of parallel drifts are driven with connections made between these drifts at regular intervals. In the northeast edge of antaibao surface mine were jingyang coal mine shallow mined out areas exploited by the room and pillar mining method.