Thick Coal Seam Mining Methods : Challenges and Opportunities
IR@CIMFR: CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad
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Thick Coal Seam Mining Methods : Challenges and Opportunities
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Agrawal, Harshit
Singh, Satyendra Kumar Singh, Awanindra P. |
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Bord and Pillar Mining
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The geo-technical problems faced in thick seam mining in India are multi-fold, notables are conventional supports having serious limitations, inadequate rib design resulting into ineffectiveness and many time unpredictability at the goaf edges and risky caving in- bye. Most of the mining endeavors in thick seams are confined to semi-mechanized propositions. Mining with stowing becomes techno-economically non-viable due to fast pace of retreat now being planned and the rate of stowing not matching with it. In this paper, a review of different mining methods in bord and pillar (B&P) pattern with caving as goaf treatment have been presented. Longwalling and its variants like LTCC (Longwall top coal caving), multi-level and multi-section caving, etc. are yet to be established in an R&D demonstrative trial panel and hence not included in this paper. The case-study observations in B&P pattern have been analyzed so as to provide the mine operators to take cognizance of challenges and opportunities in this regard. The latest updates about various research inputs by CSIR-CIMFR have also been provided within the realms of thick seam mining methods.
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IME Publication Bhubaneswar
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2016-03
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Article
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Agrawal, Harshit and Singh, Satyendra Kumar and Singh, Awanindra P. (2016) Thick Coal Seam Mining Methods : Challenges and Opportunities. Indian Mining & Engineering Journal , 55 (3). pp. 16-21. ISSN 0019-5944
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http://cimfr.csircentral.net/1561/
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