Coal mine ground control. 3rd ed. (Book) | OSTI.GOV

The subject areas covered in this book define the current field of coal mine ground control, except for the recently emerging topic of mine seals and some conventional subjects such as coal/rock cutting and impoundment dams. It contains 1,134 references from all published sources, and archived since 1876.

Assessment, Monitoring and Ground Control Management …

The prism monitoring has not indicated any further significant movement of the slope in this area. 6 Conclusions Slope failures and ground instability at surface mining operations contribute to nearly 15% of surface mining fatalities (Girard, 2001). Mine safety can be drastically improved by employing a ground control management plan.

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Participate in a forum designed to promote communication in ground control research among consultants, regulators, manufacturers, and mine operators to expedite solutions to ground control problems in mining.

Practical coal mine ground control—operator's perspective

This chapter summarizes recent advances in coal mine ground control technology and practice from the operator's perspective. While many mining ground control research programs have been carried out over the past 60 years, from the mine operator's perspective, any new development in coal mine ground control technology …

Geotechnical Instrumentation and Monitoring in Mining 4.0

Also, it could be a valuable handbook for mine, geotechnical and ground engineers to educate them about different technologies and help them choose the right one for the mine. ... Geotechnical Instrumentation and Monitoring in Mining 4.0 book, which will be published by CRC Press, will provide a comprehensive technical and practical …

Ground Control Instrumentation : A Manual for the Mining …

Ground Control Instrumentation: A Manual for the Mining Industry, Issue 9053 Ground Control Instrumentation: A Manual for the Mining Industry, United States. Bureau of Mines Volume 9053 of Information circular: Author: Eric R. : Contributor: United States. Bureau of Mines: Publisher: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1985

Coal mine ground control, second edition (Book) | OSTI.GOV

Covers common ground control problems underground, rock properties and in situ stresses, geological effects and roof stability classification and investigation, roof bolting, coal pillars, ground control in longwall mining and multiple-seam mining, bumps, instrumentation, special supports and problems, and surface subsidence.

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Mining Product: Ground Control Software Toolbar. Keywords: Analysis methods Ground control. Original creation date: August 2005. Authors: NIOSH. ... Installing the Ground Control Toolbar will also install the following NIOSH Ground Control analysis packages: Analysis of Horizontal Stress Effects in Mining (AHSM), Analysis of …

Ground control in mining

Ground control in mining

Simplified Mining Instruments (SMI) provides simple solutions for complex underground monitoring, offering a range of mining ground control devices. The Miner's Eye Borpe camera is used for the visual inspection of boreholes as small as 1 …

Ground Control For Underground Mines | PDF

This document provides guidance on ground control for underground mines. It discusses ground control as a function of site ground characteristics, mine planning and design, and ground support and …

Fundamentals of modern ground control …

The critical elements of the method are presented in detail and demonstrate the utility and value of a ground control management system that has potential for implementation in underground coal ...

Mine Ground Control – Home of Software for the Mining …

This site includes references and links to a number of mining and geotechnical software packages that have been developed over several decades. Some of these packages are free and some are commercial.

Practical coal mine ground control—operator's perspective

While many mining ground control research programs have been carried out over the past 60 years, from the mine operator's perspective, any new development …

Insights into the Relationships Among the Roof, Rib, Floor

Ground control failures continue to be one of the leading causes of injuries and fatalities in underground coal mining. The roof, rib, floor, and pillars are four areas of potential ground failures that miners, engineers, and consultants are continually evaluating. Quite often, these four underground structures are evaluated independently. A recent …

Mining Control & Monitoring Equipment | Branom Instruments

Mining Control Monitoring Instrumentation. Mining control operations utilize various types of equipment that often operate using different formats and interfaces. This can make it difficult to manage the efficiency of all the different processes, especially in larger plants. ... From ensuring minerals are ground to the appropriate size to ...

SME announces conference on ground control in mining

Development Ground Instrumentation and Monitoring Studies ... The annual Syd S. and Felicia F. Peng Ground Control in Mining Award and several scholarships were established with SME in 2005 to ...

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Ground control safety issues include improving roof support performance, maintaining safe tailgate escapeways from longwalls, optimizing pillar design for retreat mining, controlling multiple seam …

INSTRUMENTATION – Mining Science and Technology

INSTRUMENTATION. There are various methods and techniques available for in-situ testing of the underground rock mass. Some of the strata mechanics …

Ground Control – Agapito Associates, Inc.

Ground control is becoming increasingly important as mining operations move to deeper and more inaccessible locations. Agapito Associates, Inc. (AAI) has extensive experience and capabilities in all aspects of ground control including surface and underground operations in both coal and metal/non-metal mines as well as civil excavations.

Ground Control in Mining

This Collection on Ground Control in Mining will include papers on extreme ground conditions, bumps, rockbursts, mine case histories, in situ stress and global stability, numerical modeling …

(PDF) TECHNOLOGIES AND PRACTICES FOR REMOTELY …

The authors found ground control personnel preferred standalone monitoring tools, with networked instruments limited to special cases. ... remote imaging of the mining face, 2) ground support ...

32nd International Conference on Ground Control …

32nd International Conference on Ground Control in Mining Instrumentation of a Roof Bolter Machine for Void Detection and Rock Characterization Soheil Bahrampour, Bahrampour,Ph.D. S. Student …

AMIT 129: Lesson 10 Mine Ground Control

Explain what ground failure is. Describe methods in ground control. Compare and contrast the different types of supports. Reading & Lecture Purposes & Policies in Ground Control. Provide protection from ground failure; Company policy for ground control at the mine; Causes of Ground Failure. Loose rock; Large boulders; Back arches; Type of …

Rock Mechanics Instrumentation and Monitoring for Ground …

This report by the Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of the Interior, presents several practical and inexpensive types of rock mechanics instrumentation for ground control around longwall panels. Application of these critical parameters, determined by this instrumentation, to the design and modification of rational longwall-mining systems is …

Quality assurance in mine ground control management

Quality in ground control. Ground control is defined as the ability to predict and influence the behaviour of a rock mass in the vicinity of underground or open pit mining excavations. It consists of recognition of ground conditions, geotechnical mine design, mining activities (drilling, blasting and support), and monitoring of rock mass ...

Photogrammetry in underground mining ground control

Deformation and support conditions in underground mines are typically monitored through visual inspection and geotechnical instrumentation. However, the subjectivity of visual observation techniques can result in ambiguous or incomplete analyses with little quantifiable data. Monitoring displacements with conventional instrumentation can be …

Fundamentals of modern ground control management in …

This paper explains how risk assessments are used in coal mining ground control. Risk assessments in ground control are conducted in the following stages of mining: (1) during pre-development studies, e.g., pre-feasibility, feasibility, pre-development design studies, (2) when preparing long term mine plans, (3) prior to the development of ...

Coal mine ground control. 3rd ed

Covers common ground control problems underground, rock properties and in situ stresses, geological effects and roof stability classification and investigation, roof bolting, coal pillars, ground ...

Quality assurance in mine ground control management

The Ground Control Management Plan introduces quality measures in each step of the mining activities and should focus on key control points i.e. data collection, design, mine production, and instrumentation and …

Ground control instrumentation : a manual for the …

Groundcontrol(Mining)—Instruments.2.Rockdeformation—Mea-surement.I.UnitedStates.BureauofMines.II.Title.III.Series:Infor-mationcircular(UnitedStates.BureauofMines);9053. TN295.U4[TN288]622s[622'.2] 85-600140 ^ CONTENTS Page i Abstract 1 c Introduction 2 Acknowledgment 2 …

GATE Mining Engineering Topic: Geomechanics/Rock …

GATE ± Mining Engineering (Topic Wise Questions 2007 -2017) Topic: Geomechanics/Rock Mechanics and Ground Control/Strata Control Prepared by: Vikram Seervi IIT (BHU) Vikramseervi007@gmail . GATE SYLLABUS: Geo -technical properties of rocks; Rock mass classification; Ground control, instrumentation and …

Topical areas of research needs in ground control

So in 1981 the author of this paper initiated the Annual Conference on Ground Control in Mining (the title was changed in 1987 to the International Conference on Ground Control in Mining or ICGCM due to the strong interest and attendance from the international community). ... Instrumentation and their results are very convincing to …

Ground control in underground mines

Ground control technicians or technologists who work with the specialists and install and collect data from ground monitoring instrumentation and perform quality control tests on ground support systems. Using external consulting engineers. ... The mine ground control program should list: all ground support systems (including components and ...

Geotechnical Instrumentation and Monitoring in Open Pit …

As mining operations increase in scale and mines go progressively deeper, the geotechnical input into mine design is of importance. ... Deformations or errors — On data control and analysis in mining deformation surveys . By X.L. Ding. Abstract . chapter ... Geotechnical instrumentation and ground behaviour monitoring at Mount Isa . By …

Underground ground control monitoring and interpretation, …

Underground instrumentation has been recognized by most researchers as the most reliable method for ground control research. Theories developed and validated by underground monitoring results are very convincing. ... Syd S. Peng (Ed.), Advances in coal mine ground control, Woodhead Publishing (2017), pp. 35-65. View PDF View …

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Ground Control – Mining Science and Technology

Longwall mining activities alter the exsisting ground stress field, this changed stress field is known as induced stress. Extraction of coal by longwall mining induces a redistribution of stresses causing the rocks near the mining excavation to accomodate a redistributed load. Effective and efficient longwall mining is dictated by …