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  A Tier 3 method to estimate fugitive gas emissions from surface coal mining

  2012101 · Fugitive coal seam gas emissions from open cut coal mines (surface mining) arise when coal and associated strata are blasted, fractured and disturbed as part of the mining process. This liberates the seam gas that is trapped within coal seams. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recommends using an emission factor ( EF) …

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  Advice to decision maker on coal mining project - iesc

  20221221 · Summary. The Moorlands Open Cut Coal Mine Project (‘the project’) is a proposed new thermal-coal mine located in the Moorlands Basin approximately 25 km northwest of Clermont in Central Queensland. The project will extract approximately 1.9 million tonnes of run-of-mine coal annually for 30 years (AARC Environmental Solutions …

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  Comparing Open-Cut Mining and Underground Mining

  2024227 · Open-cut mining methods are frequently used to recover minerals that are found around the surface, such as coal, iron ore, copper, gold, diamonds, and others. The process involves drilling, blasting, and removing overburden, which is the topsoil and vegetation that covers the mineral deposit.

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  2024 Mining Terms Explained | An Underground Miner

  2023511 · Coal mining - The process of extracting coal from the ground, which is a valuable energy resource used primarily for generating electricity and heating. Coalification - The metamorphic processes of forming coal. Collar - The timbering or concrete around the mouth of a shaft; also the top of a mill hole.

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  Opencast Mining - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

  Coal mining by open-cut methods. A dragline is used to remove overburden from a gently dipping coal seam, placing it in spoil piles on the up-dip side (left). A pattern of blast holes has been drilled into the overburden on the right of the image. The coal is removed by a power shovel and placed into trucks for haulage from the mine.

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  Slope stability calculation method for highwall mining with open-cut ...

  202217 · Samples were collected from an open-cut coal mine in Inner Mongolia with a total length of 5.1 km. The major coal seams are nos. 19 and 21 with a current mining rate of 360 m/a.

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  6 Common Blasting Methods in Open Pit Mining | DASWELL

  20231013 · We know that open-pit mining operations mainly include drilling, blasting, mining, transportation and dumping. Blasting is a very important part of it. Blasting costs account for 15% to 20% of the total cost of open pit mining. Moreover, the quality of blasting directly affects the working efficiency and total cost of the mining process.

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  Slope stability calculation method for highwall mining …

  2023124 · Samples were collected from an open-cut coal mine in Inner Mongolia with a total length of 5.1 km. e major coal seams are nos. 19 and 21 with a current mining rate of 360 m/a. e no. 21 coal seam ...

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  A Tier 3 method to estimate fugitive gas emissions from surface coal mining

  2012101 · Fugitive emissions from all coal mines for the year 2009 were estimated at 28.7 Mt carbon dioxide equivalents (CO 2 ‐e), which is 5.3% of Australia's total man‐made greenhouse gas emissions (Australian National Greenhouse Accounts, 2011). While the bulk of emissions is from underground coal mining, about 30% of emissions come from open …

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  Justification of Open Pit Mining Technology for Flat Coal …

  2016929 · The article describes a problem of considering the coal strata bedding for the scheming of dragline mining technology for open pits developing flat seams. For three flat coal seams strata processing the main criterion defining the choice of technology of their processing is the stratigraphic positioning rate for the middle coal seam. It is the ratio of …

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