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    Underground hard-rock mining refers to various underground mining techniques used to excavate "hard" minerals, usually those containing metals, such as...
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    hard, the mining methods used differ from those used to mine deposits in igneous or metamorphic rocks (see underground hard-rock mining). Underground...
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  • from underground coal mining, although accidents also occur in hard rock mining. Coal mining is considered much more hazardous than hard rock mining due...
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  • Box cut (category Underground mining)
    with rock bolts, wire mesh, and shotcrete, which prevents accidental rock falls from closing access to the decline. Underground hard-rock mining "What...
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    yheory, instrumentation surface mining; open-pit mining underground mining (soft rock) underground mining (hard rock) computing; DATAMINE, MATLAB, Maptek...
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    method used to break down the hard rock holding the gold. One of the complexes is shown in one of the earliest known mining maps. The miners crushed the...
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  • mines and underground hard rock mining, about ninety percent. The last ten percent consists of placer and base metal mining. Sustainable mining has been...
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    Speculator Mine disaster (category 1917 mining disasters)
    was the most deadly event in underground hard rock mining in United States history. Most men died of suffocation underground as the fire consumed their...
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    above-ground mining structures are referred to as a "pit head". In Australia, "colliery" generally refers to an underground coal mine. Coal mining has had...
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  • Crusher (redirect from Rock crusher)
    compact geometry and size which is valuable in mining industry, .e.g. in underground hard-rock mining. A crusher bucket is an attachment for hydraulic...
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