Disclosed is a paste for use in mining processes, such as backfilling and cemented rock fill, to provide improved early and late-stage strength at a lower overall cost. The paste includes mine tailings, one or binding agents, engineering backfill and water. The engineering backfill fibers are typically plastic fibers obtained from plastic products, partially plastic products, recycled plastic products, or partially recycled plastic products. Also disclosed are methods of backfilling a portion of a mine and uses of the paste in mining processes.

A plug for a void in a mine to divert water having a rigid closed cell foam which fills the void. The rigid closed cell foam having a plurality of pipes disposed within the foam. The pipes distributed throughout the void. The pipes are positioned in the foam so the pipes are staggered in length vertically with respect to various heights in the void, and the pipes are positioned in the foam every 4′ to 6′ horizontally with respect to the void. Each pipe has a mixing stick. A method for diverting water from a void in a mine.

The present invention relates to method for filling deformable karst cave, and the steps are: penetrating a grouting pipe into an elastic silicone tube, penetrating the grouting pipe and the elastic silicone tube into a deformable bracket, and lowering into a karst cave; sealing the elastic silicone tube, injecting silicate resin materials into the grouting pipe, and injecting steel fiber reinforced grout to implement a block stone-like structure; sealing the elastic silicone tube, separating the block stone-like structure from the elastic silicone tube to complete a block stone-like structure; lowering the elastic silicone tube and the deformable bracket, sealing the elastic silicone tube, lowering the elastic silicone tube and the deformable bracket tore construct the block stone-like structure, and completing the filling. The present invention may effectively stabilize the karst cave, ensure safe tunnel construction and stable surrounding rocks, and improve engineering construction speed.

Treatment technology directed to using mine waste as a raw material to manufacture a mine filling product for use as a suitable precursor product or mine filling product to be used as a backfill material to close a mine. The precursor product or mine filling product retains its metals and is not be able to generate acidity. According to the disclosure, the precursor product or mine filling product, when placed in a mine, may also remove metals from mine fluids in the mine it contacts, and still retain the metals it hosted when it was a mine waste prior to it being used as a raw material to manufacture the precursor stowing backfill product.

A continuous mining and delayed filling mining method for a deep ore body masonry structure is provided, comprising: dividing an ore body into ore blocks along a trend, internally dividing each ore block into stopes with square masonry structures, and reserving a rib pillar between the ore blocks; arranging an ore block conveyor belt gallery and a stope conveyor belt gallery at the lower parts of the ore blocks, arranging ore block crossheading and stope crossheading at the upper parts of the ore blocks, mining the stopes in the sequence from the foot wall to the hanging wall. In accordance with the present disclosure, adverse effects caused by deep high geo-stress and high geo-temperature on mining operation can be effectively overcome. The method has the advantages of low carbon and environmental protection, safety of recovery operation, high mechanization of stope operation, low labor intensity of manual operation and the like.

The present invention discloses a mine exploitation method based on stoping, separation and filling control. The design process comprises: deploying a gangue-less coal mining system; choosing a suitable coal and gangue separation method according to a separation requirement; choosing a suitable filling method according to mine geology, production conditions and rock stratum control requirement; reversely calculating a filling rate according to gangue discharge requirement and control indexes by utilizing theoretical calculation, simulation and experiment; determining a filling process and a separation process according to the filling rate; and feeding back and adjusting the filling process and separation process parameters by monitoring filling and control effect indexes. The design method is highly integrated with underground coal and gangue separation, gangue filling and coal stoping processes, design is performed aimed at different control requirements of controlled objects under different engineering backgrounds, the design method can be used for guiding the design of underground mining based on stoping, separation and filling control of a mine, the zero discharge of coal gangue on the ground can be realized, ground subsidence, rock burst and aquifer stability can be controlled, and therefore the design method has a good popularization prospect.

A method for mining an ultra-thick coal seam by utilizing a goaf solid backfilling technique is suitable for mining an ultra-thick coal seam having a thickness of 25 m-45 m. According to the method, the ultra-thick coal seam is sliced into three slices, i.e. an upper slice, a middle slice and a lower slice. First, the middle slice is subjected to solid backfilling and mining. Metal meshes are paved along a working face of the floor. The backfilling layer serves as an artificial floor for mining the upper slice and an artificial roof for mining the lower slice. Then, the upper slice is mined by the top coal caving mining based on the artificial floor formed by backfilling the goaf of the middle slice. Finally, the lower slice is mined by the top coal caving mining along the coal seam floor with the shield of the artificial roof.

An internally injected replacement support room-type coal pillar recovery method is provided. During the recovery the room-type coal pillars with an aspect ratio greater than 0.6 are divided into two parts: reserved coal pillars and pre-mined coal pillars. After the mining of the pre-mined coal pillars, a cemented filling material is injected into a goaf surrounded by the reserved coal pillars, and is stabilized to replace the coal pillars for support, and the reserved coal pillars are recovered. A mechanical model of the reserved coal pillars in a support overburden stage is established based on the Winkler beam theory, to obtain displacement and stress conditions of a roof of the reserved coal pillar in a support stage. A theoretical reserve-width of the reserved coal pillars is obtained according to a first strength theory of the roof and a criterion of ultimate strength of the reserved coal pillars.

A plug for a void in a mine to divert water having a rigid closed cell foam which fills the void. The rigid closed cell foam having a plurality of pipes disposed within the foam. The pipes distributed throughout the void. The pipes are positioned in the foam so the pipes are staggered in length vertically with respect to various heights in the void, and the pipes are positioned in the foam every 4 to 6 horizontally with respect to the void. Each pipe has a mixing stick. A method for diverting water from a void in a mine.

A method of horizontal directional drilling is provided. The proposed method utilizes directional drilling in which boreholes are arranged in a pattern such that the surface area of extraction is maximized. The pattern can be achieved using a vertical borehole, multiple lateral boreholes and multiple subsidiary portions of the lateral boreholes. A lateral borehole is drilled extending beyond a vertical borehole towards the orebody, from which a subsidiary borehole is drilled into the orebody. Once the extraction is complete, the subsidiary borehole is back filled. A new subsidiary borehole is drilled extending beyond the lateral borehole and adjacent to the first subsidiary borehole. The subsidiary boreholes are planned to form a honeycomb or direct stacked pattern. Once all extraction is complete from a lateral borehole and its subsidiary boreholes, a new lateral borehole is drilled from the vertical borehole and the process is repeated.