Stope cleaning- Historical methods and future developments

Title: Stope cleaning- Historical methods and future developments
Creator: Tuck, Michael
Date: 2010
Type: Text; Conference paper
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/35156
Identifier: vital:4685
Abstract: In classical drill and blast underground mining methods, especially narrow vein operations economic quantities of broken ore can be left behind following normal mucking operations on the stope floors. The ore left behind can have significant economic value and if not collected can be lost forever. This paper reviews techniques for cleaning this material from stopes that have been used in the past and reviews possible modern techniques that can be applied to ensure this valuable material is removed from slopes.
Publisher: Ballarat The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Relation: Paper presented at Gravity Gold 2010 'Optimising Recovery' p. 25-26
Rights: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: Mining methods; Ore
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