Strategic sill pillar design for reduced hanging wall overbreak in longhole mining
Steeply dipping, vein and tabular orebodies are traditionally extracted with longitudinal retreat mining methods such as Eureka and Avoca in a bottom-up sequence with delayed backfill. To increase productivity, sill pillars in the orebody are used to separate mining zones thus allowing production to...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2021-09-01
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Series: | International Journal of Mining Science and Technology |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095268621000938 |