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Ramp-in-vein
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The next big thing is the dip of the vein; you can’t go at less than 75 degrees or else you’ll start to get in problems stacking
the cuts one over the other. Your jumbos and lhds will have a wheel on backfill and one on rock, bad working conditions.
Finally, you want to do this in veins that are not too wide, keep it to less than 5 or 6 metres. The reason is simple: you do cut
and fill because of bad ground conditions, so keep your openings under control
RIV C&F is indicated where your strike lengths are very long, as you save a lot on waste development. Also, RIV C&F is
great because it requires the same infrastructure as Avoca. That way, your sublevels all look the same, and in good ground
conditions, you do avoca, and in bad, you switch to c&f.
References
Bryant, P.E. (1992) Ramp-in-stope mining at Black Mountain. MASSMIN 92. Johannesburg, SAIMM, pp. 193-198.
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