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8/1/2002 - Conference papersStudies have identified a number of factors for evaluating a pillar extraction plan. This paper discusses each of the factors, presents relevant accident statistics, and shows how the risk factors can be combined to estimate the overall hazard.
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8/1/2001 - Conference papersThe risk of major pillar falls can often be reduced by leaving final stumps, large enough to protect the intersection but small enough to not inhibit gob caving. Analyses were conducted to assess factors on the size variation of remnant stumps.
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8/1/2000 - Conference papersThis paper addresses a deficit in pillar loading research by exploring the accuracy of empirical abutment load calculations using insight provided by an elastic overburden model, a laminated overburden model and field observations.
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12/1/1999 - Peer reviewed journal articlesAs underground stone mining expands to deeper cover and more efficient methods are used, effective stone pillar design methods become more important. In this paper, 72 stone mine pillar designs are examined for factors affecting stability.
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3/1/1999 - Conference papersAn investigation of an underground pillar at a mine in Lead, SD. Using the results, researchers hypothesize that pillar rocks have the ability to withstand stress an order of magnitude greater than they currently sustain.
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1/1/1999 - Conference papersThis paper examines current design practices for stone mines and discusses issues for safe mine layouts so that a rational first approach towards balancing the demands for increased production can be weighed against increased risk to worker safety.
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1/1/1997 - Conference papersRock masses in deep-level mines are subject to high stresses, which can result in unexpected failure of rock into mined-out openings. Personnel from two research centers of the former U.S. Bureau of Mines, Spokane and Twin Cities, investigated a rock b...
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1/1/1995 - Reports of InvestigationsDisplacement and stress changes in cemented backfill and ore pillars at the Buick Mine, near Boss, MO, were monitored by engineers from the U.S. Bureau of Mines and The Doe Run Co., St Louis, MO. Objectives of this research were to evaluate the effect ...
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1/1/1995 - Reports of InvestigationsThis U.S. Bureau of Mines study examined spontaneous heating episodes in coal mine pillars in an active underground coal mine. The objective of this study was to discover if the location of future events of pillar spontaneous heating could be inferred ...
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1/1/1994 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publicationsA computer program called Analysis of Retreat Mining Pillar Stability (ARMPS) is field tested and refined in order to estimate abutment pressures developed during pillaring. It can be successfully employed to predict pillar line stability.
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Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program