Coal resources serve as a fundamental pillar for global economic development and remain the dominant energy source in China. To improve coal resource utilization and assess the impact hazards related to strip filling mining, this study selects the No...
Critical mining under buildings, railways, and water bodies (BRW) brings the contradiction between high recovery rate and minor environmental hazards. To lessen this contradiction, an innovative mining method referred to as “wide strip backfill minin...
Determining the advanced mining influence range of an underground working face is crucial for preventing dynamic disasters, such as coal bursts and gas outbursts. In this study, the occurrence of advanced seismicity before the working face as well as...
China produces and consumes most of coal in the world. This situation is expected to continue within a certain period in the future. Currently, Chinese coal industry is confronted with several serious problems relating to land resource, water resourc...
To study hydrogeological characteristics after the occurrence of abnormal water bursts from the weak water-rich (permeable) aquifer of the Changxing Formation limestone overlying deep working faces during production in Guizhou karst landform mining a...
Methane emissions from coal mining remain a significant environmental challenge in the European Union, particularly in the context of climate change commitments and the ongoing transformation of the energy sector. This article analyses methane emissi...
The safe and efficient extraction of ore bodies under buildings contributes to the continued exploitation and utilization of mineral resources. To effectively reduce the mining-induced disturbance caused to surface buildings, the Vertical Crater Retr...
The problem of water resources damage caused by coal mining has restricted the sustainable development of Yu-Shen mining area. Illustrating the relationship between mining and water resources carrying capacity is of great significance to solve this p...
The mining induced subsidence and strata deformation are likely to affect the stability of the aquiclude, resulting in loss of water resources in the mining area. In order to reduce the disturbance of coal mining to the overlying strata and to preser...
The mining environment of thin coal seam working faces is generally harsh, the labor intensity is high, and the production efficiency is low. Previous studies have shown that thin coal seam mining finds it difficult to follow machines, does not have...
The internal overburden movement after coal mining may cause many disasters to the on-site production. It is of great guiding significance for the engineering treatment such as separation layer grouting and gas extraction to master the evolution law...
The effective discrimination of aquiclude mining stability is one of the important indexes for the feasibility judgement of water-conserved mining. Based on the mining-induced deformation characteristics of weakly cemented aquiclude and the water lev...
Mining of minerals is an important part of the technical sciences, for which the certainty and unambiguity of terms and the correct application of definitions is an absolute requirement. At the same time, the expansion of Industry 4.0 technologies, b...
Owing to alternate mining of the new and old mining areas on sites, the mining thickness and width of the working face for pier-column backfilling varies. Thus, there is an urgent need to determine the impact on the bearing performance of the backfil...
When there are multiple key strata in the overburden of a deep coal seam and the surface subsidence coefficient after mining is small, this indicates that the overlying key strata fail to break completely after mining. On this occasion, stress is eas...
Strong mining tremors (SMTs) frequently occur in super-thick strata near the goaf when mining. Since 2021, there have been three consecutive SMTs with magnitude greater than 2.0 in longwall 1208 of the Shilawusu Coal Mine. These SMTs caused mine prod...
The key to the safe mining of thick coal seams under rivers is understanding the development patterns of fractured water-conducting zones (FWCZ) when various mining methods are used. To solve this problem, we employed numerical simulation to investig...
Water conservation in mining is the key to solving the conflict between coal resource exploitation and ecological environment protection, especially in arid and semi-arid mining areas. Continuous excavation and continuous backfilling (CECB) in longwa...
Inefficiencies in mine equipment maintenance processes result in high operation costs and reduce mine sustainability. However, current methods for process optimization are limited due to a lack of access to structured data. This research aims to test...
The mining industry is by nature a challenging and demanding sector. Beyond ore extraction, management, processing, and transportation are involved in mining activities. Mining operations, often located in geographically remote and isolated areas, ar...
Various methods of longwall full mining with partial filling have been extensively researched to satisfy the specific mining needs of pressurized-coal and residual-coal resources. This study introduces three longwall partial-filling-mining techniques...
Despite the long tradition of mining activities in Kosovo, there is still the a lack of policies for post-mining. Specifically, focusing on coal mining, this research analyzes the sustainable transition and post-mining management in the Ruhr Region,...
Automated valet-parking trajectory planning has been widely studied in structured environments, whereas its counterpart in unstructured environments remains insufficiently explored. The working face of an open-pit mine is a typical unstructured produ...
Many problems exist in the layout of working surfaces in high-gas mines, such as the low efficiency of roadway excavation, difficulties in maintenance after excavation, and serious resource wastes due to difficulties in recovering coal pillars betwee...
Affected by mining stress, roadways surrounding rock face problems such as serious deformation and failure and difficult support. In this study, with the II2 mining area rise in Taoyuan Coal Mine taken as the engineering background, the evolution law...
Coal mining inevitably causes damage to the surface ecological environment. In response to the characteristics of multiple factors, wide scope, and long time series of surface ecological environment damage in coal mining subsidence areas, how to inte...
Mining-induced subsidence is critical for ecological environment reconstruction and damage prevention in coal mining areas. Understanding the characteristics of surface subsidence with multi-seam mining is the first step. Surface subsidence of differ...
Trucking is an important production link in most open-pit mines, and its transportation cost accounts for more than 50% of the total production cost of open-pit mines. The quality of the driver’s driving behavior plays a crucial role in the fin...
The objective of the paper is an introductory discussion on the knowledge gaps (KGs) observed in mining operations. A qualitative research (QLR) methodology, based on empirical evidence from the Greek mining industry, is discussed to identify the KGs...
The deep mining of coal resources can lead to surface subsidence, thereby damaging the stability of buildings on the surface; however, this issue can be effectively mitigated through goaf backfilling with coal gangue and other solid wastes. In this s...
Low-disturbance mining in surface mining (LDM) can transform traditional surface mine production systems into a more sustainable model by reducing the disturbance of surface mining, minimizing pollutant emissions, and reducing ecological impacts. The...
The automation of mining mobile equipment is a topic of considerable interest, as it has the potential to significantly reduce the number of accidents and implement the so-called zero-entry mining concept, which would eliminate the need for any human...
The primary aim of every twenty-first century mining operation is to extract as much ore as possible in a safe and economical manner. Failure in mine excavation occurs when the shear stress acting on the rock is greater than the shear strength of the...
The surface disturbance caused by coal mining and the ecological restoration have changed the vegetation coverage and ecosystem functions of the Shengli mining area. This disturbance has affected the carbon and water cycles, resulting in complex resp...
Double-roadway tunneling could mitigate the contradiction between mining production needs and tunneling speed, which is pivotal to the sustainable development of underground mines. However, it is very difficult to control the stability of a mining ro...
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An analysis of occupational accidents in the mining sector was conducted using the data from the Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Safety between 2005 and 2015, and data-mining techniques were applied. Data was processed with the software Wek...
The mining industry is facing increasing pressure to improve operational safety, environmental performance, and resource efficiency while adapting to rapid technological change. In this context, the concept of Mining Industry 5.0 is emerging as an ex...
The occurrence of surface discontinuous deformations in post-mining areas is currently a significant and important problem, due to both the frequency of their occurrence and the threat they pose to public safety. This paper presents the results of re...
Severe surface deformation induced by super-large mining height longwall extraction poses a significant threat to the safe operation of high-voltage transmission towers. In this study, a 330 kV straight-line transmission tower located above the 12210...
The expansion of mining activities around the world due to the increasing population and demand for metals are transforming mining methods. Mining is going deeper and deeper, and deposits of small thicknesses and large inclinations are becoming inter...
In mining of inclined coal seams in Tangshan coal mine of Kailuan group, gateways on either end of a panel were both typically located along the floor and a gateway pillar between adjoining panels was left unmined between adjacent panels to ensure st...
The number of large coal power plants, characterized by pithead plants, is increasing rapidly in major coal mining countries around the world. Overburden movement caused by coal mining and greenhouse gas emissions caused by coal thermal power generat...
With its high spatiotemporal resolution and wide-area coverage, InSAR technology has become an essential tool for monitoring mining-induced surface subsidence. However, the large-gradient deformation caused by the traditional caving method has hinder...
Induced seismicity has been a serious problem for many coal mines in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin in Poland for many decades. The occurring mining tremors of the rock mass generate seismic vibrations that cause concern to the local population and in...
To solve the problem of the inability to achieve Y-shaped ventilation in the boundary coal mining of high-gas mines and the problem of gas accumulation in the upper corner of a fully mechanized mining face, non-pillar coal mining technology is propos...
This study addresses the issue of coordinated development of coal, oil, and gas resources in the Yulin-Shenmu Coalfield. Taking the 132,201 working face of the Xiaobaodang No. 1 Coal Mine as a case study, the study combines FLAC3D numerical simulatio...
Longwall pier-column backfilling is a partial backfilling technique initially designed in thin coal seam mines. With the increase of mining intensity, the mining height and width of the backfilling working face will also increase. It is necessary to...
Due to climate change risks, the public, regulators, and investors require solid actions to minimize the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of mineral extraction and metals production. The mining sector considers alternatives to reduce its carbon footpri...
Open-pit mining is a common method for extracting coal, but considerable resources are often left unrecovered at the bottom of end-slopes, leading to a permanent waste of resources. This research presents a sustainable approach of multi-layer highwal...
Mining legacies are often dominated by large waste facilities and their associated environmental impacts. The most serious environmental problem associated with mine waste is heavy metals and acid leakage through a phenomenon called acid mine drainag...
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