Circular economy: the projects leading the way in

Mining is big business, but also one of the world's biggest polluters. A 2019 report estimated that the world's 3,500 large-scale mining operations produce over 100 billion tonnes of solid waste per year. The ratio of useful materials to waste minerals is staggering; waste mass can be several times that of base metals, and can be millions of times that of rare elements …

Chengye Zhang

Affiliation: China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing, 100083, China ... and potential of vegetation restoration in open-pit coal mines' dumping sites during 2003-2020 utilizing remote sensing. Ecological Indicators, 2023, 155. …

Load Haul Dump Machines

DNK10F belongs to a group of LHD (load haul dump machine) machines that have been developed for the toughest rock mining applications, with overall flow economy, safety and reliability. It features an extremely robust construction, good manoeuvrability and exceptional productivity. The use is mainly ...

How Cycle Time Efficiency can provide new insight

The scenario below demonstrates how variability in clean cycle time can lead to queues, delays, and operational inefficiencies.. A vast range of factors, both human and non-human, contribute to cycle time variability, including operator behaviour, traffic and congestion, road condition and design, shift changes and breaks, equipment performance, weather and …

Technological Adaptation of Internal Dumping to the …

mechanism was created for adapting technologies with internal dumping for the operating coal surface mine by means of the enlarged algorithm (Fig. 5) of the choice of the technology of internal dumping and the assessment of its influence on the technical and economic indicators after the implementation of the proposed solutions [9].

Surface and underground mining technology

mining technologies as well as in geological co nstraints with which any mining method either . ... Skips are self-dumping buckets and work in c ounterbalance in two separate .

A review of open pit mine and waste dump schedule planning

In seeking to maximise NPV (Net Present Value), open pit mining schedules depend on optimal sequencing of pit progress along with ore-waste segregation.

Copper, fjords, reindeer and controversy: inside

Copper, fjords, reindeer and controversy: inside Norway's new arctic mine. In February, the Norwegian Government approved construction of a controversial copper mine in Kvalsund, Finnmark, more than 400km above the Arctic Circle, despite years of opposition from indigenous Sami herders and fishermen.

Diving into the global problem of technology waste

Topics covered ranged from the interplay of energy, race, inequality, poverty, and pollution in the United States to the dumping and innovative recycling of e-waste in Africa. "We take a world tour, looking at how things are made, how they travel illegally around the world," Mavhunga says, noting that many cast-off electronics — and their ...

Patterns and Conditions of Internal Dumping in Open Pit Mining …

Mining operations in brachysyncline-type coalfields routinely take into account the structure and capacity of the field with a view to possibility of internal piling of overburden either with the method of truck-and-shovel or direct dumping [4–6].The technology of direct dumping is the most effective as its labor content and cost in stripping is 3.0–3.5 and 2.0–2.5 times lower ...

Kiruna Wagon

Kiruna Wagon specialises in the custom design and manufacture of ore wagons and logistic systems for heavy rail transports above and below ground. The company efficiently manufactures its products based on existing drawings or …

(PDF) Multi-stage dumping sequence

This article investigates a new approach for mine waste management called the multi-stage dumping sequence (MSDS), suggesting the use of temporary waste dumps along the way to the final dump...

Technology and Ecology of Dumping at Open Pit Mines in …

The methods and means of overburden dumping at open pit coal mines in Kuzbass are reviewed. Specific features of dumping are highlighted, and the dependence of dump stability on geological conditions and physical properties of overburden is determined. The priority lines of development in the dumping technology are aimed at efficient utilization of mined-out areas in …

Woodlawn Zinc-Copper Project, New South …

Woodlawn Zinc-Copper Project, New South Wales. Heron Resources' flagship Woodlawn Zinc-Copper project is located within the mining lease SML 20, approximately 11km from Tarago, 48km south of Goulburn, …

Intelligent Mining Technology for an Underground Metal Mine …

Integrated communication, sensors, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, information technologies, computer technologies, and unmanned control equipment were combined in order to achieve intelligent mining technologies, as shown in Fig. 2.Such technologies are based on precise, reliable, and accurate decision-making and production process management through …

Mine Waste Management Guide: Types, Methods, Solutions

Use of Sustainable Mining Practices: Responsible Siting: Careful selection of mining sites to minimize damage to sensitive ecosystems and habitats. Selective Mining: Targeting higher-grade ore bodies to reduce the volume of waste generated. Waste Minimization: Implementing techniques to reduce waste generation during mining and mineral processing.

Application range of internal dumping in opencast mining …

Under discussion are the issues of driving secondary access roadways without pushing ultimate pitwall limits in steep deposits with internal dumping. The calculation scheme and correlation analysis of key elements of the resource-saving technology are presented. Regressional relationships are obtained for length of an open pit mine bottom, specific weight …

Technological Significance of Internal Dumping in Open …

JOURNAL OF MINING SCIENCES Vol. 51 No. 5 2015 Mining systems with internal dumping [3] Open pit mine Mining system Dumping Technology Stage 1 Stage 2 Direct dumping Truck-and-shovel Within mine field External Internal railway motor Bachatsky One-way, section-wise increase in the rate of mining + + + Kedrovsky Sideways

Slope stability of increasing height and expanding capacity …

There are two main failure modes of the open-pit mine dumping site instability. One is the undercutting instability of the dump site caused by insufficient load capacity of the basement of the dump site. ... China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, 100083, China. Weidong Pan, Weiliang Pan & Jianyang Luo. College of Earth and Mineral ...

Full article: Methodology for a dump design optimization in large-scale

If it is a dump leach, a leaching cycle time will define the mining delivery rate and dumping schedule. Ideally, deliveries rate from the mine should match the leaching cycle times of the dump. Otherwise, there is a risk of short cycling and losing on mineral recoveries. ... Mining Technology, 117 (open in a new window) (1 (open in a new window ...

Norway set to allow mining waste to be dumped …

Private mining company Nordic Mining has been given the go-ahead to drop 170 million tonnes of mining waste at the bottom of the Førde fjord, after a 15-year dispute with environmental groups Friends of the Earth Norway …

Ecological Restoration of Abandoned Mine Land in China

have proved that the internal dumping with mining-reclamation integration was a cost-effective method of soil . ... China University of Mining & Technology, 32(5): 491-495.(in Chinese)

Mining Systems and Equipment

Mining Systems and Equipment TAKRAF is recognized as one of the world's leading technology brands providing specialized mining systems and equipment.Owners and operators around the world trust our engineered solutions that leverage our experience acquired over more than a century. Our portfolio ranges from excavating to primary crushing stations, IPCC systems, in …

Technology and Ecology of Dumping at Open Pit Mines in …

The methods and means of overburden dumping at open pit coal mines in Kuzbass are reviewed. Specific features of dumping are highlighted, and the dependence of dump …

An analysis of self-ignition of mine waste dumps in terms of

Another technology which contributed to the development of fire phenomena was the so-called dumping front technology used especially for backfilling the voids in open cast …

(PDF) Selecting Suitable Sites for Mine Waste …

A step-wise model has been developed using ModelBuilder for selecting an economic but effective site for dumping mine waste using suitable constraints and criteria.

Dumping: Products

Products & Technologies Back. ... Conveyors are the main link in mining and bulk handling systems. Dumping. ... Dumping. Mobile Stacking Bridges Dumping Mobile Stacking Bridges (MSBs) are mobile dumping or stacking machines that are suitable for fast advancing dumps with small dump heights for deep and high cast operations.

Research on Inpit Dumping Height during Tracing Mining …

School of Mines, China University of Mining & Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu 221116, China cumt.edu. Search for more papers by this author. Ding Zhang, ... of Heidaigou surface coal mine will rehandle the overburden of inner dump which comes from the Haerwusu surface coal mine. Every dumping bench elevation increases, the stripping elevation ...

Surface Mining Methods and Systems

extent where the provision of spoil space within the mine is not possible. For further reading: Bohnet [9] and Hartman [19, 20]. The main mining methods may be briefly classified as Strip Mining, Terrace Mining, and the Conical Pit Mining (next section). 8.1.1 Strip Mining There are two main categories. 8.1.1.1 Contour Mining

Full article: Methodology for a dump design …

Therefore, new methods for dump design optimization are of the highest priority in mine planning management. This paper presents a methodology to model and optimize the design of a mine dump by minimizing …