An automated hardware and brattice installer system for mining units configured to enable autonomous installation of floor mounted belt hardware and brattice behind a continuous borer mining unit to allow for continuous, unmanned, and uninterrupted advancement of the miner.

Processes and configurations for subterranean resource extraction are provided. The processes include installing borehole strings, such as by drilling a plurality of boreholes, for example, first and second boreholes, that extend from a surface region into a resource deposit. The first and second boreholes are situated adjacent to each other. Portions of the first and second boreholes laterally extend in a penannularly fashion and connect terminally at a nodal space situated within the resource deposit. Carrier fluid is injected from the surface along fluid paths defined by the boreholes to in situ leach resource materials from the resource deposit into the carrier fluid, and carrier fluid containing the resource materials is brought back to surface for resource extraction.

The present disclosure provides a leaching fluid control system for mining operations that includes controllable valve circuitry in fluid communication with a leaching fluid source, the controllable valve circuitry to provide a controlled flow rate of the leaching fluid; flow rate sensor circuitry in fluid communication with the controllable valve circuitry and with one or more leaching fluid lines to generate a flow rate signal indicative of the leaching fluid flow rate through the controllable valve circuitry; and controller circuitry to control the controllable valve circuitry to deliver a flow rate of leaching fluid based on the flow rate signal and one or more flow rate thresholds.