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- Sustainable Exploitation of Building Stone in India–Emerging Issues
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1 Department of Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad - 826004, IN
1 Department of Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad - 826004, IN
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Current Science, Vol 115, No 5 (2018), Pagination: 838-844Abstract
Stone aggregates are one of the most important construction materials obtained through conventional mining and crushing of building stones. The construction mining sector is highly unorganized, despite alarm calls raised by individuals and corporates regarding high accident rates and rapidly declining stone deposits. We may soon run out of quality stone deposits to support our aspiring infrastructure development plans. This article aims to create awareness on the importance of stone quarrying in supporting our infrastructure development plans, challenges faced by this sector, and eliciting appropriate and concrete action plans for the future.Keywords
Construction Aggregates, Health, Safety, Stone Quarry, Sustainability.Full Text
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- Impact of Blast Design Parameters on Rock Fragmentation in Building Stone Quarries
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1 Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad 826 004, IN
2 Bakhrija Plot 4, Masonary Stone Mine, Gradient Business Consulting Private Limited, Narnaul 123 023, IN
1 Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad 826 004, IN
2 Bakhrija Plot 4, Masonary Stone Mine, Gradient Business Consulting Private Limited, Narnaul 123 023, IN
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Current Science, Vol 116, No 11 (2019), Pagination: 1861-1867Abstract
Crushed stone aggregates are indispensable construction material which is produced by crushing of raw stone boulders raised from stone quarries through the process of drilling and blasting. Proper size of boulders fed to the crusher is important to eliminate congestion in the crushing circuit and obtaining the desired productivity. Drill-blast design parameters have a considerable effect on the degree of post-blast fragmentation. Bench height, spacing, burden, stemming, bench stiffness ratio and powder factor are controllable blast design parameters which considerably influence the fragmentation. By controlling these design parameters, optimum fragmentation can be achieved. Extensive field trials followed by scientific analysis have been done in this study which reveals the relation between drill-blast design parameters and post-blast fragmentation. Burden, spacing, stemming, bench stiffness ratio and powder factor were varied over a range of 30–45% which in turn caused distinctions in the mean fragment size in the range of 50–200% approximately. For optimum mean fragment size, the burden was found to be 21 times the blast hole diameter. Spacing dimension of 1.3 times the burden produced the optimum mean fragment size. Stemming length of 0.91 times of burden generated the optimum fragmentation. Mean fragment size was most optimum at powder factor of 1.02 kg/cum.Keywords
Burden, Drill-Blast Design Parameters, Fragmentation, Spacing, Stemming, Stone Quarries.Full Text
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- Sarathy, M. O., ‘Powder factor’-based tenders – progressive or regressive? Mining Engineers J., 2017, 19(8), 15–24.
- Prasad, S., Choudhary, B. S. and Mishra, A. K., Effect of blast design parameters on blast-induced rock fragmentation size – a case study. In International Conference on Deep Excavation, Energy Resources and Production, IIT Kharagpur, 2017, pp. 1–7.
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- Critical Analysis of Process Cycle by Numerical Modelling for Faster Development of Drives in Hard-Rock Underground Mine–A Case Study
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1 Tummalapalle Mine, Uranium Corporation of India Ltd,Jharkhand 832 102, IN
2 Department of Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad 826 004, IN
3 Department of Mining Engineering, Malla Reddy Engineering College, Hyderabad 500 014, IN
1 Tummalapalle Mine, Uranium Corporation of India Ltd,Jharkhand 832 102, IN
2 Department of Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad 826 004, IN
3 Department of Mining Engineering, Malla Reddy Engineering College, Hyderabad 500 014, IN
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Current Science, Vol 118, No 10 (2020), Pagination: 1547-1556Abstract
To extract deep-seated metallic minerals, an underground mine needs to be developed at a faster rate to access the ore body safely. There are various techniques to break the rock butstill drilling and blasting is considered the cheapest. Therefore, an effort was made to reengineer the mine development cycle time in order to achieve high advance rate. This study highlights the requirement of numerical simulation in rock excavation for its stability and design through the reengineered drill and blast operations. Implementation of the findings of numerical modelling and deployment of advanced drilling equipment helped reduce the total drilling time and overall cycle time by 30.70% and 15.90% respectively, in the two cases of drilling length considered, i.e. 3.4 and 4.0 m. Subsequently, in a further modified process, where the supporting activities were avoided till the third advance, there was significant improvement in the process cycle time by 43.10% for 3.4 m drilling and 39.30% for 4.0 m drilling length. We found that 15 m advance per day can be achieved by the deployment of double boom jumbo for drilling length of 3.4 m and drive size of 4.5 m ×3.0 m.Keywords
Drill And Blast, Linear Excavations, Mine Development, Numerical Modelling, Process Cycle Time.Full Text
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- Stability of Pillar and Drive Advances in Hard Rock Mine Through Numerical Modelling and Instrumentation
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1 Tummalapalle Mine, Uranium Corporation of India Ltd, Jharkhand 832 102, IN
2 Department of Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad 826 004, IN
3 National Institute of Rock Mechanics, Kolar Gold Fields 563 122, IN
1 Tummalapalle Mine, Uranium Corporation of India Ltd, Jharkhand 832 102, IN
2 Department of Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad 826 004, IN
3 National Institute of Rock Mechanics, Kolar Gold Fields 563 122, IN
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Current Science, Vol 120, No 11 (2021), Pagination: 1758-1767Abstract
Rock support systems are used to maintain the stability of underground openings and reinforce disturbed rock masses after creating an excavation. This study, in turn, will help in the selection of an appropriate number of blasts in a drive, from where the support system is required to stop mitigation of the stressdeformation conditions around it. Here, two models have been built and simulated using the RS2D programme, i.e. first to optimize the pillar and gallery size for maximum safety and extraction ratio and second is evaluation by numerical modelling and validation with rock mechanics instruments to study on mining-induced stresses, factor of safety, and displacement around the drive with no rock support system for every blast advance. The interpretation of instrumentation data collected shows that drive stability suffers significantly, with no rock support after third blast in the second model and necessity of proper rock support system is confirmed and validated.Keywords
Factor of Safety, Instrumentation, Mine Development, Mining-Induced Stresses, Numerical Modelling.Full Text
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