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    This document provides an overview of mining methods, transportation, and marketing for industrial minerals. It discusses different types of underground mining methods like room and pillar, sublevel caving, and cut-and-fill that must conform to the shape and size of the specific ore body. Surface mining methods like open pit, strip, and quarry mining are also covered. The document further explores placer mining, solution mining techniques, and potential future methods like ocean mining. Links are provided for additional information on specific mining approaches and the determination of commodity prices on the open market.

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    This document provides an overview of mining methods, transportation, and marketing for industrial minerals. It discusses different types of underground mining methods like room and pillar, sublevel caving, and cut-and-fill that must conform to the shape and size of the specific ore body. Surface mining methods like open pit, strip, and quarry mining are also covered. The document further explores placer mining, solution mining techniques, and potential future methods like ocean mining. Links are provided for additional information on specific mining approaches and the determination of commodity prices on the open market.

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    ME551/GEO551 Introduction to

    Geology of Industrial Minerals


    Spring 2011

    BASIC CONCEPTS: MINING


    METHODS, TRANSPORTATION,
    MARKETING
    Ore bodies come in many sizes
    and geometric shapes and mining
    methods must conform to each
    specific ore body and metal
    recovery economics.
    Mining methods?
    Mining methods
    • Underground
    • Surface
    • Placer
    • Leaching/solution
    Surface

    • Strip
    • open pit
    • quarry
    http://www.uky.edu/KGS/coal/surface_equip.htm
    http://www.dnr.mo.gov/env/lrp/homeim.htm
    Underground
    • methods producing natural or minimal
    support (room and pillar)
    • caving methods where failure of the back
    (roof or overburden) is required (sublevel
    caving, block caving)
    • methods that require substantial artificial
    support (cut and fill or stope backfill)
    http://www.digistar.mb.ca/minsci/ug/undergm.htm
    Room and pillar
    Sublevel caving
    Kvapil, 1992, with permission from SME
    Block caving at El Teniente
    from Julin, 1992, with permission from SME
    Cut-and-fill method
    Placer
    mining

    http://www.homestead.com/theclaimpost/PlacerMiningMethods.html
    Solution mining

    http://www.saltinstitute.org/images/saltdome.gif
    http://web.ead.anl.gov/saltcaverns/desc/index.htm
    http://www.uic.com.au/nip40.htm
    Future methods
    • Ocean mining
    • Deep sea nodules
    • Asteroid mining
    • Robots
    http://books.smenet.org/Min_Eng_Hndbk/meh2-toc.cfm
    http://www.admmr.state.az.us/Publications/circ065improcess.html
    • How are commodity prices determined?
    1 pg answer emailed to me by Feb 15

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