GIANT MINER

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MAKING THE MINE A SAFE PLACE: DESIGN OR RE-SIGN   a typical underground working level in a competent formation Many will agree with me that, mining is far different from all other profession, the fact that you have potential and title will not be a respectable fact for falling block or wedge not to break the head of mine manager who fails to put a safe design and measure in place for safe Mining. Also, I submit to you that rock formation has a major challenge of heterogeneity, non elastic, Discontinum, and Anisotropic characteristics which make it detrimental to stress field alterations under excavation and Blasting operation. Since Mining involved holing and extracting, by creating artificial cavity into the insitu rock, ground as the case may apply to remove what is supporting the lithosphere all in the name of profit and economic development. The standard is inevitable, you disturb the crust, the crust adjust and react to achieve stability. In view of this, making su...

INTRODUCTION TO SHAFT AND SHAFT USE IN MINING BY GIANT MINER  Shaft as related to underground mine is a vertical or an inclined opening extend from the surface into the ground to provide access to underground working area.  it not a news that we can mine the ore by surface and underground mining method. Now underground methods requires that the mining Engineers move into the subsurface with their equipments to extract the ore. We can't just disappear at the surface and appear in the underground like a magician!  We provide an access into the ore without stripping the overburden materials.  These access are reference to two, the primary development and secondary development. Shaft is a primary development opening as it has a life span greater than that of the mine. It provide access for personnel entrance into the underground mine, provide duct for ventilation, and many more. Shaft can be classified into categories base on the following: 1 Base in uses 2. ...