Continuous surface mining: equipment, operation and design

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
Organization of the symposium......Page 8
International Symposium on Continuous surface Mining Symposium Advisory Committee......Page 9
Table of Contents......Page 10
Recent trends and advances in BWE and belt systems (Keynote address)......Page 12
Customization in BWE design......Page 20
A second lignite mine at Neyveli: Salient features and problems......Page 26
Surface mining of Polish lignite deposits with complex geological structure......Page 40
Planning and implementing direct sidecasting systems in lignite surface mining of the GDR......Page 46
Field investigations of oil sand diggability with a bucketwheel excavator......Page 58
Mining of hard erratics in overburden of lignite mines......Page 66
Excavation of box cuts and mine opening with across-pit (XPS) systems......Page 72
Selective conveying and homogenization in the Bełchatów mine......Page 78
Application of the first continuous mining system in a Chinese lignite mine......Page 84
Economic design of bucketwheel excavators and spreaders for medium throughput rates......Page 90
Continuous surface mining of coal in Czechoslovakia......Page 100
Bucketwheel excavators developed for the Neyveli opencast mines......Page 108
Type and application of overburden spreaders......Page 112
End around conveyor or cross pit conveyor, the selection of the appropriate pre-stripping system......Page 122
High angle conveyors-HAC®s for surface mining – \'1988\'......Page 128
A survey of conveyor belt tension calculation methods......Page 138
Diagnostic of bevel and cylindrical gears in surface mines......Page 142
Computerized calculations of belt conveyor tensions......Page 156
Multiple bench shovel-crusher-conveyor application......Page 164
Investigations of bucketwheel excavator dynamics......Page 178
The impact of boom technology on mining equipment......Page 186
Dynamics of bucketwheel excavator booms......Page 196
A simulation analysis model for continuous surface miner and trucks operations using SLAM II......Page 200
Geomechanical stability control of open pit mines......Page 212
Continuous surface miners – A mining system for hard materials and selective mining......Page 222
Portable truck dump......Page 232