The oldest of the basic underground methods room and pillar mining grew naturally out of the need to recover more coal as mining operations became deeper and more expensive.
Room and pillar coal mining.
The coal pillar and the mining width are designed using the room and pillar mining method and the optimum panel size is determined by the longwall panel layout longwall panel layout with local shortwall mining it can reduce the waste of coal resources and also protect the surface structures.
Room and pillar variant of breast stoping is a mining system in which the mined material is extracted across a horizontal plane creating horizontal arrays of rooms and pillars.
The conventional mining techniques described above made up of the cyclic operations of cutting drilling blasting and loading developed in association with room and pillar mining the oldest of the basic underground methods room and pillar mining grew naturally out of the need to recover more coal as mining operations became deeper and more expensive.
In room pillar mining high safety levels in design is important and to achieve this understanding the behaviour of the pillars is essential.
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Development of continuous mining loading developed in association with room and pillar mining.