Cut winnings methods of an open-pit mine development.docVIP

Acta Montanistica Slovaca Ro?ník 12 (2007), ?íslo 3, 174-181 Cut winnings methods of an open-pit mine development Michal Cehlár a Ivana Cehlárová 1 Prierez vyvoja dobyvacích metód povrchovych baní Surface mining is an extremely significant process of acquisition of a substantial amount of minerals serving the needs of human society. The open-pit mining process is characterized by horizontal removal of a huge amount of blasted rock. The deposit is often mined in several horizontal sections. The deposits may be mined via so-called shelf quarries, which are quarries created in the hill slope or via so-called pit quarries where the quarry is established in the terrain lacking the camber and the quarry is “deepened” in the depth direction by gradual mining. A combined way is also possible, when after the initial mining in the shelf quarry, mining continues to altitudes under the surrounding level. Key words: open-pit, mining project, cut winning, transport Introduction The development of an open-pit quarry represents a summary of winning operations and other works which implement the development and transport connection of working and delivery points on the terrain surface. General conditions of development After the implementation of the geometric analysis of an open-pit quarry and the selection of an optimum variant, the development of an economic mineral deposit begins. Basic criteria for the selection of a manner of development are as follows: ? ? ? ? minimum volume of development operations, minimum investment stripping, transport as short as possible, as short a period of quarry construction as possible. The following factors shall be taken into consideration during the selection of a development place: terrain configuration, size of the open-pit quarry, type of economic mineral, geotechnical parameters of stripping and economic mineral, investment intensity of mining, ? ? ? ? ? ? final co