COAL MINING

TUTORIAL 01
1. Define the following terms
a. As Received Basis
b. As Received Moisture
c. Brown coal
d. Coking coal
e. Humic
2. A mining engineer can design a coal mine without a detail knowledge of coal geology, Discuss
3. List down properties of coal important for mine planning and development
4. How can humic coal be described?
5. Outline elements composing coal
6. A small-scale miner step into your office and explaining to you that, he owns a coal deposit with a
large amount of anthracite coal which is hard, shiny and with high calorific value because it was
formed in the absence of vegetation, as a private consultant how would you handle that kind of
customer? Explain
7. Coalification is happening by chance (it is a fortune), discuss
8. A friend of yours is arguing that, the quality of coal increase with increase of moisture content, do
you agree? Why
9. The top producers of coal are from east Africa, is this correct? If not mention the correct countries.
10. Underground mining methods are cheaper than surface mines because the operations can’t stop
due to excessive rainfall in the rain season, discuss.
11. The thickness of the seam is always uniform which makes it easier to calculate volume and tonnage,
discuss
12. The dead weight of overburden has nothing to do with horizontal stresses, discuss
13. A colleague was employed at UDOM coal mine as a rock mechanics engineer, on his first activity he
was supposed to analyze the effect of stresses before and after sinking a shaft, he told his manager
that, nothing to worry as the stresses will remain the same before and after sinking the shaft, do
you agree with your associate? explain