Explosive Fragmentation of Rock Masses with Heterogeneous Structure

2021 ◽  
pp. 135-138
Author(s):  
B.V. Ekvist ◽  
N.G. Barnov
Keyword(s):  
Geological Structure ◽  
Strength Properties ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Heterogeneous Structure ◽  
Rock Masses ◽  
Variable Delays ◽  
Explosive Fragmentation ◽  
Complex Geological Structure ◽  
Technical Properties

A method to optimize drilling and blasting parameters with account of the physical and technical properties of rocks within the blasted block is proposed to improve the quality of blasting in open pit mines characterized by complex geological settings. The results of laboratory tests are provided that confirm improvement in the quality of rock sample crushing by blasting charges with variable delays and locations, depending on the strength properties of the samples, relative to blasting charges with unchanged parameters. The proposed method can be used in combination with GPR surveys of the rock mass. Explosive fragmentation of the rock masses with complex structures is characterized with a number of features caused by changes in the strength properties within the blasted block. In order to optimize the fragmentation efficiency of rock masses with complex geological structure, it is required to assess physical and technical properties of rocks and to determine their location and variations of the strength properties within the blasted block. It is possible to quickly assess the physical and technical properties of the blasted rocks using the surface georadar method. The outcome of this method is georeferencing of the reoradar data to the location and properties of the rocks to be blasted, along with the methodology of applying the georadar surveys, selection of the areal assembly type depending on the size and properties of detected jointing, and economic justification of applying this method. The novelty consists in linking the georadar data on the rocks to be blasted with drilling and blasting parameters.

scholarly journals The Comparison of Main Copper Sulphide Minerals Beneficiation Under Laboratory and Industrial Conditions at the KGHM Concentration Plant

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paweł KURZYDŁO ◽  
Witold PAWLOS
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Tests ◽  
Geological Structure ◽  
Copper Sulphide ◽  
Copper Ore ◽  
Ore Deposit ◽  
Sulphide Minerals ◽  
Concentration Plant ◽  
Complex Geological Structure ◽  
Process Line

The Zechstein copper ore deposit located on the Foresudetic monocline has a complex geological structure both in lithological and mineralogical aspects. The significant variability in quantity and quality of minerals deposited in the ore bed is one of the factors determining the susceptibility of copper ore to beneficiation based on flotation, which is carried out in the KGHM Concentration Plant. Based on the algorithm developed, flotation experiments on a laboratory scale have been conducted to predict the upgrade rates under industrial conditions. This paper provides the results of the mineralogical examination of the flotation products performed by one of the KGHM Concentration process lines and compares the beneficiation of various copper sulphide minerals. The results of the laboratory tests have been compared with the results of sampling carried out simultaneously at the process line. A procedure has been proposed to develop equations defining the industrial upgradability curves for copper sulphide minerals under the KGHM Concentration Plant conditions.

3D modeling of a complex alluvial aquifer for efficient management – application to the lower valley of Var river, France

2018 ◽  
pp. 60-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingxuan Du ◽  
Elodie Zavattero ◽  
Qiang Ma ◽  
Olivier Delestre ◽  
Philippe Gourbesville ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Geological Structure ◽  
Free Surface Flows ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Safe Management ◽  
Physically Based ◽  
Complex Geological Structure ◽  
French Riviera ◽  
Operational Tool

Complex alluvial aquifers are frequently essential resources for cities that are looking for reliable and safe resources for water supply. The location of such aquifers is frequently combined with intense urban developments that may, potentially, generate pollutants that could affect badly the quality of the resources. An efficient and safe management of water supply system requests to develop a good knowledge of the dynamics of the aquifer and to characterize the exchanges that could exist with free surface flows in associated rivers. The most efficient way to understand the behaviour of the aquifer is to implement a 3D physically-based hydrodynamic model that could represent all physical processes. However, this approach, in order to become an operational tool, requests a structured methodology for data integration and validation. The paper describes the construction of a 3D hydraulic model of groundwater flow in the Var lower valley, on the French Riviera, with FEFLOW modeling system. Despite a very complex geological structure and a limited knowledge on the aquifer itself, the results demonstrate that the model is able to represent the groundwater flows over long chronologies and to provide an accurate diagnostic on various hydraulic structures that are affecting negatively the aquifer conservation.

Management and engineering solutions to improve processing stock quality and reduce resource-intensity of mining

2018 ◽  
pp. 56-68
Author(s):  
V. V. Agafonov ◽  
V. Yu. Zalyadinov ◽  
M. E. Yusupov ◽  
N. S. Bikteeva
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Mining Operations ◽  
High Concern ◽  
General Production ◽  
Resource Intensity ◽  
Product Output ◽  
And Control ◽  
A Company

Sustainability of mining companies is of of high concern. The problem is specifically acute at companies that are monotownor monosettlement-forming. Sustainability of a mine depends in many ways on product quality and production resource-intensity. This article discusses formation of mineral quality indexes in terms of an open pit chrysotile mine. The studies took into account specific features of operation procedures implemented by each structural division of the mine. The analysis has found managerial and technological inconsistencies which affect quality and marketable product output, as well as efficiency of the mine in whole. The background for efficiency enhancement at a company is, by the authors’ opinion, consolidation of personnel subject to the single development strategy, namely: improvement of production and control efficiency, as well as use of available reserves and resources by means of better setup for production. The proposed approaches to planning mining operations and forming mineral quality allow higher quality of processing stock. In addition, a new model proposed for interaction between structural divisions of a mining company ensures improvement of general production indexes.

Qualitative assessment of equipment failure cause finding and removal

2018 ◽  
pp. 116-126
Author(s):  
E. A. Vakulin ◽  
A. I. Zayats ◽  
V. A. Beklemeshev ◽  
V. A. Ivashkevich ◽  
V. A. Khazhiev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Production Condition ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Open Pit Mine ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Quality Level ◽  
Equipment Failure ◽  
Operation Conditions ◽  
Failure Investigation

Investigation of failures is one of the critical activities of mining and haulage equipment operability assurance in mining. Maintaining failure investigation at the required quality level, it is possible to identify provisions, rules and procedures that should be revised or changed, operation conditions that should be improved, additional personnel training, if required, etc. Investigation of failures in mines is under responsibility of machine men and electricians of maintenance and operation services. In reality, factory management and setup for production condition weak concernment of these workers in quality investigation aimed at finding of sources of equipment failures. This article describes real-life results achieved in development and use of maintenance service operation, technology and management monitoring. The requirements are substantiated for quality improvement in failure cause finding and removal in mining and haulage equipment at Chernogorsky open pit mine, SUEK-Khakassia. Causes of the present quality of failure investigation by machine men of Chernogorsky Repair and Engineering Works and Chernogorsky open pit mine are revealed. The proposed recommended practices will improve quality of mining and haulage equipment failure investigation.

Review of Matheron’s Kriging Method and its Application at the Estimation of Mineral Deposits

Veritas ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Edgar M Marín Ballón ◽  
Hugo Jiménez-Pacheco ◽  
Máximo O. M. Rondón Rondón ◽  
Antonio E. Linares Flores Castro ◽  
Ferly E. Urday Luna
Keyword(s):  
Geological Structure ◽  
Mineral Deposits ◽  
Kriging Method ◽  
Geostatistical Methods ◽  
Recoverable Reserves ◽  
Complex Geological Structure ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Industrial Software ◽  
Strict Stationarity ◽  
Mining Exploration

The Geostatistics provides effective tools for the solution of many problems of engineering in which the location in the space of the variable under study is considered, based on definitions of mathematics that provide the necessary foundation for its application. In particular, the Geostatistics are applied in the spatial estimation of the recoverable reserves of mineral deposits. The geostatistical methods that are used in the estimation of mineral deposits are implemented in industrial software and consider the evaluation of the complex geological structure, but these softwares only display the obtained results with an input data and do not exhibit the concepts thatthey use during the process or the methodology of its application. This happens particularly with the Kriging method, which is based on the assumption of strict stationarity, taking into account changes in the mean and local variations, therefore unreliable. In this study is established to review the Kriging method, its application in the estimation of the recoverable reserves of mining deposits and the relevance of the developed model established particularly in mines ofPeru, which use this method as part of the mining exploration for the evaluation of the feasibility of exploitation.

Mechanics Research on Rock Stress and Deformation of Lancang River Canyon's Large - Scale Dumping Deformation

2013 ◽  
Vol 353-356 ◽  
pp. 318-323
Author(s):  
Song Ye ◽  
Yu Sheng Li ◽  
Qian Guo
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Geological Structure ◽  
Deformation Characteristics ◽  
Deep Part ◽  
Trailing Edge ◽  
Geological Surveys ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Numerical Simulation Methods ◽  
Complex Geological Structure ◽  
Stress And Deformation

This article is based on geological surveys combined with finite element and discrete element numerical simulation methods. In-depth analysis of the complex geological structure, deformation characteristics and stress - deformation problems of dumping rock, we clarify different deformation characteristics of deformable landslide inside, at the bottom and the deep part of trailing edge, and demonstrate the deformation will gradually shift from dumping to shear slip. Potential deformation failure mode will be dumped into the whole sliding - tension, which is controlled by the bottom broken belt, and potential deformation is mainly subject to the bottom fault F207-3 of deformed rock and the dumping broken belt at the deep part of trailing edge.

General concept of determining the parameters of non-mining walls of ultra-deep diamond deposits development open pits

2021 ◽  
pp. 48-53
Author(s):  
I. V. Zyryanov ◽  
A. N. Akishev ◽  
I. B. Bokiy ◽  
N. M. Sherstyuk
Keyword(s):  
Rock Mass ◽  
Structural Relaxation ◽  
Slope Angle ◽  
Field Tests ◽  
Friction Angle ◽  
Strength Properties ◽  
Strength Characteristics ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Open Pit Mining ◽  
Relaxation Coefficient

A specific feature of open pit mining of diamond deposits in Western Yakutia is the construction of the open pits in the zone of negative ambient temperatures, which includes thick permafrost rock mass, and which is at the same time complicated by the influence of cryogenic processes on deformation of pit wall benches. The paper presents the comparative analysis of strength characteristics in frozen and thawed rocks, stability of benches during mining, the general geomechanical approach to the determination of parameters of non-mining walls of the ultra-deep open pit diamond mines, and the parameters of nonmining walls and benches. Optimization of open pit wall configuration should primarily be based on the maximum utilization of the strength properties of frozen rocks in combination with the development of new approaches, calculation schemes and methods for assessing stability of open pit walls and benches of unconventional design, including the non-mining vertical benches. The main design characteristic that determines the parameters of open pit walls is the structural tectonic relaxation coefficient, which specifies the calculated value of cohesion in rock mass. For the diamond deposits, the values of the structural relaxation coefficient were obtained in a series of field tests and back calculations. Full-scale tests were carried out both during exploration operations in underground mines and in open pits. The accuracy of determining the values of the structural relaxation coefficient in the range of 0.085–0.11 is confirmed by the parameters of non-mining walls in an open pit mine 385–640 m deep, with overall slope angles of 38–55° and a steeper H 0.35–0.5 lower part having the slope angle of up to 70° with average strength characteristics of 7.85–11.84 MPa and the internal friction angle of 28.1–37.4°. Using the natural load-bearing capacity of rock mass to the full advantage, which the values of the structural relaxation coefficient of deposits show, allows optimization of open pit wall slope design and minimization of stripping operations.

Distribution of organic matter in Bazhenov high-carbon formation

2019 ◽  
pp. 46-56
Author(s):  
M. S. Topchii ◽  
N. V. Pronina ◽  
A. G. Kalmykov ◽  
G. A. Kalmykov ◽  
M. M. Fomina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Geological Structure ◽  
Heterogeneous Structure ◽  
Carbon Formation ◽  
High Carbon ◽  
Mixed Composition ◽  
Shale Formations ◽  
Bazhenov Formation ◽  
Geological Features ◽  
Micro Level

One of the most famous and promising shale formations in Russia is the Bazhenov formation. The ambiguity of ideas about its geological features, caused by the complex, heterogeneous structure of the strata, attracts the attention of many researchers. In this work, the Bazhenov formation is singled out in conjunction with its stratigraphic counterparts in the Bazhenov high-carbon formation (BVCHF). In this were considered the main characteristics of its allotment and distribution over the area, as well as the geological structure. Being an unconventional reservoir of hydrocarbons, BVCHF has properties of a petroleum-bearing rock, one of the main characteristics of which is organic matter, its type and maturity. The paper presents the results of the study of organic matter by various methods at the micro level, as well as their integration with larger-scale studies. The need for detailed consideration of the organic matter of the BVCHF is justified by the fact that it has a mixed composition and, as a consequence, a different degree of transformation and spatial distribution.

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