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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377WEBLong hole drilling and blasting techniques are key to achieving high production rates in underground metal mines. 2. Precise long hole drilling allows for larger sublevel spacing and vertical crater retreat (VCR) mining which improves efficiency and productivity. 3. In VCR mining, parallel long holes are drilled and charged in horizontal slices ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377WEBMay 30, 2018 · Longwall Mining Method and Design. Table of Contents. Studies estimate that 156 billion tons of coal, representing 68 pct of the minable reserves in the United States, is subject to multipleseam mining. Historically, roomandpillar mining has dominated coal production, and this mining method has been the focus of most .
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377WEBWith this method, four rooms, up to 200 ft long, are driven on 50 ft centers into the barrier. The 30 ft pillars are then extracted by taking consecutive lifts as shown in figure 6. During this ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377WEBJan 1, 2019 · VCR dropraising is actually an offshoot of vertical crater retreat (VCR) mining method based on Livingston's cratering theory. 8., 9., 10. ... In this method, vertical largediameter holes are first drilled from the ground surface to bottom in the back of the cavity, and then spherical charges of explosives (lengthtodiameter of charge ratio ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377WEBA modified version of the cratering prin ciple was applied in the blast design in extrac ting ore across a horizontal area of a stope or pillar. The new rock breaking technique has developed into the Vertical Crater Retreat (VCR) mining system and eliminated raise boring, slot cutting and dilution of the ore by back fill material.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377WEBJan 1, 2019 · The objective of this paper is to study the behavior of a low thick and low depth coal seam and the overburden rock mass. The mining method is room and pillar in retreat and partial pillar recovery. The excavation method is conventional drill and blast because of the small production. The partial pillar recovery is about 30% of the previous ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377WEBFeb 3, 2016 · Pillar extraction, (also referred to as retreat mining; pillar recovery; stooping; pillar robbing; and bord and pillar second workings) is the practice of forming a series of pillars and then partially or totally extracting some or all of the pillars, usually with mining operations retreating out of a panel. There are a number of basic pillar .
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377WEBFaced with rising costs and lower metal prices, several Ontario base metal sulphide mines have changed their method of mining to vertical crater retreat mining. This is a bulk mining method that utilizes large diameter holes and mines successive cuts remotely by blasting and cratering the bottom of the drill holes. The ore body is mined from the .
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377WEBNov 9, 2022 · Vertical crater retreat (VCR), also known as Vertical retreat mining, is an open stoping, bottomup mining method that involves vertically drilling largediameter holes into the orebody from the top, and then blasting .
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377WEBMar 13, 2011 · Vertical crater retreat mining Like sublevel stoping and shrinkage stoping, vertical crater retreat (VCR) mining is applicable to mineralization in steeply dipping strata. However, it uses a different blasting technique breaking the rock with heavy, concentrated charges placed in holes ("craters") with very large diameter (about 165 mm ...
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