DEFINITION OF HARDROCK MINING TERMS Adit A level, horizontal drift or passage from the surface into a mine. Borehole A vertical or inclined hole, used for ventilation from one level to another, or to carry waterlines or electrical wires. May be large enough for .

Reporting to the Production Superintendent, this role will be responsible to provide leadership and supervision in the underground mining operation to ensure safe and efficient hauling of ore, waste and backfilling activities that include loaders, trucks, traders, Spotters, ROM Pad, Stockpiles and samples to provide training and coaching to the National Haulage Supervisors.

haulage in a bord and pillar mining method, with partial pillar extraction and meet the regulator's approval requirements. Sensitivity – designed for the underground coal mining environment such as at Clarence, as seen in the United States experience and yet to be tested in Australia Drotsky, 2006). The

method Coal mines. 1. Introduction Haulage drifts are used for the transportation of blasted ore blocks from the draw point to nearby ore pass or dumping point in deep underground mines as shown in (Fig. 1). During production, haulage drifts are occupied by mine operators and mobile equipment.

MSHA Promotes Powered Haulage Safety. In remarks made earlier this year, Zatezalo suggested that a rulemaking was in development that would require operators at surface mines to use proximity detection technologies that are now being used on continuous miner machines in underground coal mines, as well as seat belt interlock devices. For now,...

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Tomorrow's underground mine FUTURE MINING AND UNDERGROUND AUTOMATION John Chadwick considers advances in communications, automation, continuous development and underground access, and even laser mining The innovative ®Rock Flow System radically changes the way in which ore is moved in block caving mines from draw point to the primary crusher.

To help employers protect the safety and health of underground construction workers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has prepared a number of guidance documents, including the underground construction regulations, found in Part 1926, section 800 of Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations (29 CFR ).

BROOKVILLE is the underground mining industry's preferred brand of haulage, transportation and specialty equipment. A customer request became a BROOKVILLE patented design when the first Jackwalker TM rerailing device was designed, tested and built for underground mining locomotives.

Incorporating haulage as an integral part of the detailed schedule means that the result will be both practical and efficient. It can also save mine planning engineers time by not having to address truck capacity as an addon to the schedule.

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part of the scheduling process inherently leads to an optimal schedule and therefore maximises value. Accurate waste location data is vital for obtaining accurate haulage hours for scheduling. Evolution integrates haulage into a continuous flow of information where the haulage network is defined as inpit and expit roads, and waste dump ramps.

Direc rope haulage Consist of one pulling rope and one haulage drum for hauling minerals in tubs or mine cars up a gradient which is generally steeper than 1 in 10. The haulage engine is situated at the top of an inclined roadway. The train of tubs is attached to one end of the rope, the other end being fixed to the haulage drum

Vertical crosssections of the underground mine or project at suitable intervals and suitable azimuths, showing all shafts, tunnels, drifts, stopes, and other workings in relation to the surface, including the location of the top of the bedrock, surface and bottom of the overburden, and surface of a known body of water or watercourse.

The dominant working structure of an underground mine is a network of interconnected tunnels or mine development called drives (horizontal tunnels) and ramps (inclined tunnels) and vertical haulage shafts which provide access to orezones and conduits for the transport of ore to the surface. Typically, deep and longlife mines warrant shaft haulage.

accidents), when the 'Powered Haulage – Haulage Trucks' class of accidents are analyzed per mine type, for surface coal and metal mines approximately 8% of accidents are attributable. When the incident rate per 1000 employees is considered, surface coal and metal mining predominate, reflecting to an extent the highly mechanized nature of