The prerequisite of maintaining an efficient and safe mining operation is the proper design of a mine by considering all aspects. The first step in a coal mine design is a realistic geometrical modelling of the coal seam(s). The structural features such as faults and folding must be reliably implemented in 3D seam models. Upon having a consistent seam model, the attributes such as calorific val...

The longwall mining method is one of the most applied methods in extracting low-inclined to high-inclined coal seams. Selection of the most suitable extraction equipment is very important in the economical, safety, and productivity aspects of mining operations. There are a lot of parameters affecting the selection of an extraction equipment in mechanized longwall mining in steeply inclined coal...

A series of experiments were performed to determine rock mechanical parameters related to was studied. Experimental results show that the coal seam in the study areas has a relatively low elastic modulus, high Poisson’s ratio, high fragility and is easily broken and compressed. The coal seam is considered as a transversely isotropic medium, since the physical properties in the direction of bedd...

A thin coal seam mined as a protective coal seam above a gas outburst coal seam plays a central role in decreasing the degree of stress placed on a protected seam, thus increasing gas permeability levels and desorption capacities to dramatically eliminate gas outburst risk for the protected seam. However, when multiple layers of coal seams are present, stress-relieved gas from adjacent coal sea...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the large-scale structure, and hence available reserves, of the Lower Cretaceous Luscar Formation near Mountain Park, in the Foothills of Alberta. Coal resource evaluation clearly requires information on the mineable tonnages, as well as the grade, of the coal strata. In open pit mining, the volume of coal economically extracted from a seam is directly ...

INTRODUCTION The use of Top Coal Caving for exploiting the thick coal seam with shallow buried depth most likely has a strong negative impact on the stability. CASE DESCRIPTION Anjialing No. 1 Underground Mine is located in Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province of China. The 4# Coal Seam of this coal mine is the thick coal seam with shallow buried depth, which has the thickness of 12 m and the depth...

Aiming to reduce the high mining stress observed in large-space roof structures during mechanized mining of thick coal seams, a control technique based on protective-seam mining is proposed. This technique was used to investigate the 8108 working face of the No. 3–5 thick coal seam of the Tashan mine located in the Datong area of Shanxi, China, by means of simulations and field measurements. Th...

This paper deals with the methodology of modelling the Dubňany lignite seam base and its tectonic failure. Tectonic pattern of the Vienna Basin has been subject of many studies. Opinions on its origin have been developing. Coal seams in the South Moravian Lignite Coalfield were modelled under the project of the example modern evaluation of the coal deposit. Designed software with application of...

This study, in a broad sense, fills in the missing parts in previous efforts at pullback stripping mode design with a dipping coal seam. Three different spoiling procedures have been developed: the normal mode, where the coal seam is flat/nearly flat; the uphill mode, where the coal seam is dipping and the dragline spoils uphill; and the downhill mode, where the coal seam is again dipping but t...

thermal decomposition of two coal samples obtained from top seam sibi (tss) and sore range quetta (srq) coal fields in their raw and acid washed forms were carried out in an open type tubular pyrolyzer coupled to a gas chromatograph with fid. elemental analyses were carried out with scanning electron microscope-energy dispersive x-rays (sem-edx) analyzer. effect of inherent mineral contents on ...