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  • SME-ICGCM
    Large Scale Ground Instability Caused By Failure of Underlying Pillars: A Case Study of Dynamic Multiple Seam Interaction

    By Christopher Mark

    Severe dynamic multiple seam interactions can occur when active mine workings are subsided by underlying mining activity. The most dramatic events are usually caused by longwall mining or pillar recov

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME-ICGCM
    Historical Perspective And Future Projection Of Longwall Mining In The United States (19eaaffe-326c-46a4-9a81-dc104b2df560)

    By Thomas M. Barczak

    This report chronicles the historical development of longwall mining in the United States and speculates on future developments to the turn of the century. Five eras of technological development durin

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME-ICGCM
    A Practical Application of Photogrammetry to Performing Rib Characterization Measurements in an Underground Coal Mine Using a DSLR Camera

    By Brent A. Slaker, Khaled M. Mohamed

    "Understanding coal mine rib behavior is important for inferring pillar loading conditions as well as ensuring the safety of miners who are regularly exposed to ribs. Due to the variability in the geo

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME-ICGCM
    Integration Of CAD-Based Mine Planning And Subsidence Engineering Systems

    By Andrew P. Jarosz

    The present computerized mine planning systems use CAD-like and Data Base Management System (DBMS) environments for the handling of numerical, textural, and graphical data. These two environments are

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME-ICGCM
    The Design of Primary Ground Support during Roadway Development Using Empirical Databases

    By Ry Stone

    "There have been many design practices utilised within the coal mining industry to arrive at the minimum densities of primary ground support required during roadway development. This paper demonstrate

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME-ICGCM
    Cost Preventive System To Control Unstable Roof In Main Line Haulage Entries

    By John Popovich

    The MICON RokLok binder system including component and consolidation processes and safety and its first aide are described. The implementation procedures and selection of injection parameters are disc

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME-ICGCM
    The Back Pressures Associated With Resin Rock Bolt Installations And Methods To Control And Predict It (1a0250a7-1c1e-4686-8a66-dbfc2dd6e095)

    By Anthony S. Spearing

    The vast majority of the estimated 100 million rock anchors installed in mines in the USA per year use resin cartridges (Tadolini and Mazzoni, 2006). About 4.5 million per annum of these are bolts wi

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME-ICGCM
    What Factors Over and Above Those Included in the Existing Coal Mine Roof Rating (CMRR) Could Also Be Predictive of Roof Instability in Underground Coal Mines?

    By Elizabeth Holley, Meriel Young, Gabriel Walton

    "The coal mine roof rating (CMRR) was developed by Chris Mark and Greg Molinda to bridge the gap between geological variation in underground coal mines and engineering design. The CMRR accounts for th

    Jan 1, 2018

  • SME-ICGCM
    Recent UK Experience of Working above Previously Extracted Longwalls

    By David Bigby

    In the UK, it is becoming increasingly necessary to open new longwall mining areas above old, abandoned workings. In such cases, strategic and gate roadways must often be driven and maintained acros

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME-ICGCM
    A Hydrogeomechanical Study Of Overburden Aquifer Response To Longwall Mining

    By G. J. Hasenfus

    This paper presents the results of an extensive hydrological and geomechanical monitoring program which Gas conducted at a longwall coal mine in W. Va. The field program included monitoring of groundw

    Jan 1, 1988

  • SME-ICGCM
    Mine Layout Deign for Coal Bump Control

    By Hamid Maleki

    A comprehensive study consisting of stress determinations, core logging, laboratory testing, and numerical analyses was conducted to investigate the cause and potential alternatives to the coal bump c

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SME-ICGCM
    Comparison Of Predictions And Measurements Of Subsidence Caused By Underground Mining In Northern Appalachia

    By H. J. Siriwardane

    This paper presents results from three case studies involving longwall mine panels at which the measured ground movements were compared with the numerical model predictions based on the finite element

    Jan 1, 1988

  • SME-ICGCM
    Innovative Tailgate Support For Heavy Ground: 11 Left Longwall Panel, Cyprus Shoshone Mine

    By Christopher C. Woomer

    Cyprus Shoshone Mine uses the longwall method to extract a deep, thick, pitching coal seam in the Hanna Basin of South Central Wyoming. The immediate, and main roof rock consists of weak, thinly-bedde

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME-ICGCM
    Relocating Mining?Induced Seismicity at the Trail Mountain Mine

    By Meagan S. Boltz

    From October 2000 to April 2001 a local array of fourteen seismograph stations was deployed at the Trail Mountain Mine (TMM), an underground coal mine in Emery County, Utah, to locate mining-induced s

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME-ICGCM
    A Procedure for the Rapid Assessment of Coal Mine Roof Stability against Large Roof Falls

    By Ted Klemetti, Gabriel Esterhuizen, John L. Ellenberger

    "Advanced numerical models can be used to evaluate entry support systems in coal mines. However, these methods require specialized software and specialized skills to create the models and evaluate the

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME-ICGCM
    Coal Mine Bumps: Case Histories of Analysis and Avoidance

    By David Newman

    In Eastern Kentucky, the Darby seam has had an extensive history of coal bumps and pillar bursts. The combination of high overburden, strong rock and coal, subjacent and superjacent mines, and retrea

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME-ICGCM
    A Study On Stress Distribution And Reasonable Size Of Coal Pillar In A Coal Face

    By H. C. Li

    Mechanical models are established in accordance with the degree of mining on both sides of the coal pillar, and formulae were derived which calculated the superposition stress distribution and the wid

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME-ICGCM
    FlexKnot: An Innovation in Roof and Rib Surface Control

    By Anand Bhagwat

    Surface control can prevent the falls of ground between primary roof support systems and rib support. Using existing industrial products, and adopting them for mining applications, has historically at

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME-ICGCM
    Controlled Blasting During Drifting In Hard Rock Mine

    By S. P. Singh

    Drifts are an integral component of underground mining. They provide access for men and material, means for transporting ore and rock and serve as air passageways. In view of their importance on the o

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME-ICGCM
    Observations of Impacts to Pennsylvania's Interstate Highways by Longwall Mining

    By Anthony Iannacchionc, Jessica Benner, Harold Miller, Megan Witkowski

    "Longwall bituminous coal mining has been practiced in Pennsylvania since the 1970""s. Hundreds of longwall panels have been mined during the last 40 years but only 24 have actually undermined Pennsyl

    Jan 1, 2010