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The document describes the Mineportal website and app which provides study material and online test series for mining exams. It offers notes, video lectures, discussion forums and WhatsApp support for topics related to mining. The website contains detailed notes on underground metalliferous mining terms and the cycle of operations for driving drifts and levels as well as raising methods.

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Metal Mining Terms With Figures

The document describes the Mineportal website and app which provides study material and online test series for mining exams. It offers notes, video lectures, discussion forums and WhatsApp support for topics related to mining. The website contains detailed notes on underground metalliferous mining terms and the cycle of operations for driving drifts and levels as well as raising methods.

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IIT(BHU) VARANASI
STUDENTS’ NOTES
UNDERGROUND METALLIFEROUS
MINING

TOPIC-METAL MINING TERMS

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• Adit - A nearly horizontal passage from the surface by
which a mine is entered and dewatered. A blind
horizontal opening into a mountain, with only one
entrance.
• Back - The roof or upper part in any underground mining
cavity.
• Cage - In a mine shaft, the device, similar to an elevator
car, that is used for hoisting personnel and materials.
• Grizzly - Course screening or scalping device that
prevents oversized bulk material form entering a material
transfer system; constructed of rails, bars, beams, etc
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• Crosscut - A passageway driven between the entry and
its parallel air course or air courses for ventilation
purposes. Also, a tunnel driven from one seam to
another through or across the intervening measures;
sometimes called "crosscut tunnel", or "breakthrough".
In vein mining, an entry perpendicular to the vein.
• Haulage - The horizontal transport of ore, coal,
supplies, and waste. The vertical transport of the same
is called hoisting.
• Pillar – unmined portion of the deposit, providing
support to the roof or hanging wall.

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• Crown Pillar: Portion of deposit overlaying an
excavation left in place as a pillar
• Rib: side wall of an excavation (rib Pillar)
• Sill Pillar: Portion of deposit underlying an
excavation left in place as a pillar.
• Wall rock: Country rock boundary adjacent to
a deposit
• Country rock: waste material adjacent to a
mineral deposit.

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• Overhand: advancing in an upward direction.
• Underhand: advancing in a downward direction.
• Incline - Any entry to a mine that is not vertical
(shaft) or horizontal (adit). Often incline is
reserved for those entries that are too steep for a
belt conveyor (+17 degrees -18 degrees), in which
case a hoist and guide rails are employed.
• Manhole - A safety hole constructed in the side of
a gangway, tunnel, or slope in which miner can be
safe from passing locomotives and car. Also called
a refuge hole

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• Raise - A secondary or tertiary inclined
opening, vertical or near-vertical opening
driven upward form a level to connect with
the level above, or to explore the ground for a
limited distance above one level.
• Chute - An inclined opening, usually
constructed of timber and equipped with a
gate, through which ore is drawn from a stope
into mine cars.

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• Crosscut - A horizontal opening driven across
the course of a vein or structure, or in general
across the strike of the rock formation; a
connection from a shaft to an ore structure.
• Hanging Wall - The wall or rock on the upper
or top side of a vein or ore deposit.
• Footwall - The wall or rock on the underside of
a vein or ore structure.

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• Stope - An excavation in a mine from which
ore is being or has been extracted.
• Bell : funnel-shaped excavation formed at the
top of raise to move the bulk material by
gravity from a stope to a drawpoint
• Drawpoint: loading point beneath a stope
utilize gravity to move the bulk material
downward and into a conveyance, by chute or
loading machine.

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• Drift: primary or secondary horizontal or near
horizontal opening oriented parallel to strike.
• Finger raise: vertical or near vertical opening
used to transfer bulk material from a stope to
a drawpoint, often interconnect set of raise.

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• Lateral – secondary or tertiary opening often
parallel or at angle to a haulage way, usually to
provide ventilation or some auxiliary service.
• Loading pocket: Transfer point at a shaft where
bulk material is loaded by bin hopper and chute
into a skip
• Manway: compartment of a raise or a vertical or
near vertical opening intended for personnel
travel between two levels

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• Ore pass: vertical or near vertical opening
through which bulk material flows by gravity.
• Ramp: Secondary or tertiary inclined opening
driven to connect levels, usually in a
downward direction and used for haulage.
• Slot: Narrow vertical or inclined opening
excavated in a deposit at the end of a stope to
provide a bench face.

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• Transfer point: location in the material
handling system either haulage or hoisting
where bulk material is transferred between
conveyances
• Undercut: low horizontal opening excavated
under a portion of a deposit usually a stope to
induce breakage and caving of the deposit,
also known as kerf cut in the face of a mineral
deposit to facilitate breakage.

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Cycle of operation

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Driving of Drift/Levels
• Horizontal opening
• Methods
• Cycle of operation

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Driving of Raises
• Vertical opening
• Conventional
• Raise boring machines methods

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