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    1. The document discusses mining methods for thick coal seams, which are considered 4.8m or thicker in India. 2. Mining thick seams poses several challenges including difficult strata control, need for heavier supports, risk of pillar overriding, and lower percentage of coal extraction. 3. Common mining methods for thick seams in India include slice mining using ascending, descending, or mixed slicing orders, as well as blasting gallery methods where the seam is developed into panels and blasted coal is remotely loaded.

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    1. The document discusses mining methods for thick coal seams, which are considered 4.8m or thicker in India. 2. Mining thick seams poses several challenges including difficult strata control, need for heavier supports, risk of pillar overriding, and lower percentage of coal extraction. 3. Common mining methods for thick seams in India include slice mining using ascending, descending, or mixed slicing orders, as well as blasting gallery methods where the seam is developed into panels and blasted coal is remotely loaded.

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    1. The document discusses mining methods for thick coal seams, which are considered 4.8m or thicker in India. 2. Mining thick seams poses several challenges including difficult strata control, need for heavier supports, risk of pillar overriding, and lower percentage of coal extraction. 3. Common mining methods for thick seams in India include slice mining using ascending, descending, or mixed slicing orders, as well as blasting gallery methods where the seam is developed into panels and blasted coal is remotely loaded.

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    Thick Seam Mining Methods and Problems Associated With It: Submitted By: SAURABH SINGH

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    1. The document discusses mining methods for thick coal seams, which are considered 4.8m or thicker in India. 2. Mining thick seams poses several challenges including difficult strata control, need for heavier supports, risk of pillar overriding, and lower percentage of coal extraction. 3. Common mining methods for thick seams in India include slice mining using ascending, descending, or mixed slicing orders, as well as blasting gallery methods where the seam is developed into panels and blasted coal is remotely loaded.

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    THICK SEAM MINING METHODS AND PROBLEMS

    ASSOCIATED WITH IT

    Submitted by: SAURABH SINGH


    CONTENT

    • Introduction
    • General information about thickness of seam
    in India and other countries.
    • Problems of mining thick coal seam.
    • Methods of mining thick coal seam.
    • References
    Introduction
    In India ,coal seams of 4.8m thickness or higher are called
    thick . Nearly 60% of total coal reserve that are workable by
    underground mining methods in the country are thick coal
    seams. To fulfill the increasing demand of coal ,most of these
    thick coal seams have been developed extensively in single or
    multiple slice. Around 30% of the developed thick seam are
    underneath a protected surface, while the remaining 70% are
    available for caving subject to the availability of a suitable
    mining method to extract coal under the existing challenges of
    the difficult geo mining condition.

     
    General information about thick seam
    in India and other countries
    • In india more than 4.8m seams are considered
    as thick seams.
    • While in USSR seams more than 3.5m are
    considered as thick seam.
    • In england more than 1.83m seam are
    considered as thick seam
    • In france,canada and australia seams more
    than 4m are considered as thick seams.
    PROBLEMS OF MINING THICK COAL
    SEAM
    • Strata control is difficult.
    • Heavier supports are required.
    • Inspection of roof is difficult.
    • Risk of overriding of pillars.
    • With the collapse,large volume of gas may be
    expelled.
    • Percentage of extraction is low usually less
    than 50%.
    • More chances of spontaneous heating. Since
    considerable amount of coal is lost in goaf.
    • Due to high working ventilation may be slow
    especially in depillaring areas and if the seam
    is gassy this may result in methane layering.
    METHODS OF MINING THICK COAL
    SEAMS
    • In india over 60% of all coal reserves are contained in thick
    seams some of which are nearly 30m thick one
    exceptionally 162m thick in singrauli coalfield. Methods of
    extraction used are:
    1. Slice mining: In slice mining coal seam is divided into slices
    of appropriate thickness and from these slices coal can be
    extracted in either ascending,descending or mixed order.
    1.1 Ascending slice: In this method coal seam is divided into
    blocks and each block, each block consisting of a number of
    slices. The slices in the block are worked into ascending order
    with stowing, while the blocks are worked in descending
    order. This method is commonly practiced in horizontal slicing
    method of thick seam.
    • 1.2 Descending Slice
    Descending slicing can be done with or without
    stowing. In case of descending slicing with caving,
    spreading of wire neeting is required to make
    artificial roof to arrest material of the broken goaf of
    the upper slice and this wire neeting serves as the
    roof for the lower slices; i.e , lower slices are worked
    below the broken goaf.Stowing is rarely practiced in
    descending slicing.
     
    • 1.3 Mixed order slicing
    • In this method coal seams are divided into
    blocks and each block consisting of number
    of slices . The slices in the block are worked in
    ascending order with stowing, while the
    blocks are worked in descending order.This
    method is commonly practiced in horizontal
    slicing method of thick seam mining.
    2. Blasting Gallery method
    • The 1st BG Panel was started in the country at east katras colliery in jharia coal field(BCCL) in
    1987.
    • In Ranigang(ECCl) in the the year 1987 this method was partially successs full but was
    discontinued due to spontaneous heating.
    • SCCL introduced BG method in the year 1989 for extraction of a coal seam with 11m thickness.
    • The method was very successful resulting in 85 % of extraction with high productivity.
    • BG method is a semi mechanised way of extracting coal .
    • Seam must be greater than 7m thick to use this method.
    • Seam must be flatter ,i.e gradien t must be 1 in 5.
    • In this method the seam is developed into panels of 50m x 100m.From the main heading the
    room is driven to the full width of the panel and the coal between the room is blasted to the
    full thickness of seam.
    • Blasted coal is loaded by remote control loaders.
    • Thick seams upto 15m can be extracted in single pass with percentage extraction of 65% to 85%.
    REFERENCES
    • RD singh
    • www.sciencedirect.com
    • www.britannica.com

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