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Underground Mine Planning and Design Miscellaneous Exercises and work sheets

1. A bord and pillar having square pillars is designed for 30% extraction during
development. If the gallery width is 5m, the side of the pillar m is ______________
2. In an experiment to study coal dust explosibility, it is found that 3 gram of limestone
dust is should be added to 2 gram of coal dust to ensure that propagation of flame
does not take place. The explosibility factor of coal dust is __________
3. For a shrinkage stope the following data are given
Insitu tonnage : 900 tonne
Insitu grade : 5.2g/tonne
Average grade of waste : 1.4 g/tonne
Loss of ore in the stope : 10%
Dilution : 20%
The grade at the mill head in g/tonne is ________________
4. If the swell factor of ore in the shrinkage stoping is 1.4, the output from the stope in
percentage of the broken ore is: ___________
Underground Mining Methods Miscellaneous Exercises and work sheets
1. Match the following appropriately
(P)Draw point (I) Arrangements that helps to prevent oversized to pass
(Q) Ore pass (II) a system of vertical or near vertical openings for
transferring ore from stope to a single delivery point
(R) Grizzly (III) A place where ore can be loaded or removed
(S) Finger raise (IV) A Vertical or inclined opening used for transferring ore
2. Rill Stoping method is the form of
A. Block Caving B. Artificially supported stoping C. underhand stoping D. overhand
stoping
3. Out of the support categories given for underground coal mine identify the active
Support
A. Wire Mesh B. Shotcrete C. Fully grouted roof bolt D. Hydraulic prop
5. In a drum hoisting system through a vertical shaft, overwinding is prevented by
A. Lilly controller B. Detaching hook C. caliper brake D. Safety Catch
6. The excess pore pressure in back fill material in a cut and fill stope leads to
A. Reduction in the strength of the wall rock B. Enhancement of the bearing strength
of the fill C. Loss of shear resistance of the fill D. Prevention of progressive
failure of the crown pillar
7. The main purpose of back fill in the cut and fill stope is
A. Reduce ore dilution C. prevent displacement due to dilution of fractured wall
rock
B. Reduce high stress concentrations in far field domain D. Improve ore rehandling
8. The stoping method, where a large part of blasted ore is allowed to accumulate in the
stope to serve the purpose of providing the working platform for stoping as well as to
support the wall rock is, is known as
A. Shrinkage stoping B. cut and fill stoping C. Square set stoping D. Sublevel
stoping
9. Resuing stoping method is adopted when the ore body is
A. Flat and thick B. very steep and thick C. Flat and thin D. Very steep and
thin
10. Match the following
Stoping method Advance of stoping face
p. shrinkage stoping 1. Sideward vertical slices
Q. Rill stoping 2. Upward horizontal slice
R. Blasthole stoping 3. Downward horizontal slice
S. Top Slicing 4. Sideward inclined slices

10. Match the following


P. Breast stoping 1. LHD a. In situ pillar
Q. cut and fill 2. Scraper b. un supported
R. Sublevel stoping 3. Gravity flow c. Mill tailings
11. Match the following
Access Haulage Mineralization location
P. Shaft 1. Track a. Moderate depth
Q. Decline 2. Trackless b. Deep seated
R. Adit 3. Hoisting c. Hillock
12. Match the following
Mining Method Operation
P. Board and Pillar 1. Longhole radial drilling
Q. Sublevel Caving 2. Splitting and Slicing
R. Longwall Retreating 3. Loosening under strata pressure
S. Integrated Caving 4. Mechanical Cutting
Surface Mine Planning and Design Miscellaneous Exercises and Work Sheets
1. A mine waste dump having a PH of 5.2 can be neutralized by adding
A. Urea B. Calcium carbonate C. sulphuric acid D. Sodium Chlorid
3
2. A dragline is required to remove 300000m of rock per month on the bank volume
basis
Consider the following data for the dragline operations:
Effective working hours per month – 450
Bucket fill factor – 0.8
Cycle time – 65 s
Swell factor of the rock – 1.25
The minimum bucket capacity of the dragline in m3 is ___________
3. The failure and repair rates of a shovel are 0.06 per hr and 0.04 per hr respectively.
The availability of shovel in percentage is __________________
4. Block economic values in millions of birrs for a section of a block economic model
shown below
-1 -1 1 -1 0 -1
-1 0 0 0 -1 -2
-5 -3 -2 5 -2 -3

At a permissible slope angle of 1:1, the optimum pit value of the section in millions of
birr is ________
5. A surface miner with 2 m cutting drum width excavates coal in windrowing mode from
a bench with effective face length of 200 m. The cutting speed of the surface miner is
10 m/min and the cutting depth id 25 cm. the density of the coal is 1.4 tonne/m 3 , if
the average turning time of the machine at the end is 5 min. the rate of production in
tonne/hour becomes ___________
6. The following data are given for a surface mine to be excavated by a shovel:
Production target : 10000 tonne/ Shift
Available hours per shift : 6 hours
Shovel loading cycle per hour: 106
No of shifts per day: 3
No of working days in a year: 300
Annual production target in Million tonne is _________
7. Given
Value of ore: 6000 Birr per tonne
Cost of production: 300 Birr per tonne
Cost of overburden removal: 500 Birr per M3
The break-even stripping ratio in M3 per tonne is ____________
8. The following information is given to the deposit expected to be mine using surface
Mining Methods
No of waste blocks: 10
No of ore blocks: 5
Volume of each waste block, m3 : 600
Total cost of waste handling per m3 : 150 Birr
Tonnage of each block: 400
Total cost of ore handling per tonne: 150 Birr
Sale price of ore per tonne: 600 Birr
The net cash flow mining of the deposit is: ______

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