“Advance and Relieve” Mining: A Method to Mitigate the Effects of High Horizontal Stress on the Mine Roof [proceedings]

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• Personal Author:
  Dolinar, D. R. ; Mucho, T. P. ; Oyler, D. C. ; Pablic, J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  At a mine in central PA, high horizontal stresses have caused long running roof falls resulting in hazardous conditions for the miners and the premature abandonment of panels. Because of these conditions, the mine requested assistance of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in utilizing the 'advance and relieve method to mitigate the affects of horizontal stress on the mine roof. "Advance and relieve" mining involves the removal of a pillar or a portion of a pillar during development, thereby creating a cave along one side of the panel. Following cave development, the horizontal stress is relieved over the workings adjacent to the cave in the active panel. The mine has used this system in three panels with a significant reduction in stress damage and no large roof falls.
• Subjects:
  Mining
• Source:
  2001 SME Annual Meeting, February 26-28, 2001, Denver, Colorado, Preprint 01-113. Littleton, CO: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, 2001 Feb; :1-12
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference Publications
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:na
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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