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  2. Underground hard-rock mining - Wikipedia

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    Sub-Level Caving Subsidence reaches surface at the Ridgeway underground mine. Using this method, mining is planned to extract rock from the stopes without filling the voids; this allows the wall rocks to cave in to the extracted stope after all the ore has been removed. The stope is then sealed to prevent access.

  3. Stoping - Wikipedia

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    Long hole stoping as the name suggests uses holes drilled by a production drill to a predetermined pattern as designed by a mining engineer. [11] Long hole stoping is a highly selective and productive method of mining and can cater for varying ore thicknesses and dips (0 – 90 degree).

  4. Room and pillar mining - Wikipedia

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    Room and pillar mining was one of the earliest methods used, [3] although with significantly more manpower. The room and pillar system is used in mining coal , gypsum , [ 4 ] iron , [ 5 ] limestone , [ 6 ] and uranium [ 7 ] ores, particularly when found as manto or blanket deposits, stone and aggregates , talc , soda ash , and potash . [ 8 ]

  5. Sangdong mine - Wikipedia

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    Application of “Sublevel Stoppingmining method. Feb. 1934 Acquisition by Japanese Solim Mining Corporation. Oct. 1946 Company name changed from Solim Tungsten Mining Company to Joseon Tungsten Mining Company. Jan. 1947 Statement “Korean tungsten quality is the standard in global market” announced by USA national assay office. Feb. 1947

  6. Mopani Copper Mines - Wikipedia

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    Cobalt occurs as carrollite and cobaltiferous pyrite in approximately equal proportions. The mine produces copper and cobalt from three sources: Mindola Shaft, Central Shaft and South Orebody Shaft. Vertical crater retreat is the predominant mining method while sublevel open-stopping and sublevel caving methods are also used. [27]

  7. Olympic Dam mine - Wikipedia

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    The mine currently operates by an underground mining method called sublevel open stoping, using modern and highly productive mining equipment. The March 2005 mine production rate is an annualised 9.1 million tonnes making it one of Australia's larger mines. 2005 metal production is thought to be in excess of 220,000 tonnes of copper, 4500 ...

  8. Outline of mining - Wikipedia

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    Shaft mining, mining vertically; Slope mining, mining at an inclined angle Stoping is the process of extracting out the ore from underground, leaving a hole called a stope; Room and pillar; Longwall mining; Retreat mining; Fire-setting, a method used in stoping by setting fires to timber and letting the resulting collapse break up the rock

  9. Stoping (geology) - Wikipedia

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    Stoping is a process accommodating the ascent of magmatic bodies from their sources in the mantle or lower crust to the surface. The theory was independently developed by Canadian geologist Reginald Aldworth Daly [ 1 ] and American geologist Joseph Barrell .