Metalliferous Mines India

A Mining Engineering Hand Book

A video tape of each blast is simple and powerful recorded image that can easily be tagged and kept for future reference.

In the sequential steps of mine development, there are three that are unique to surface mining:

  1. Initiation of land reclamation plan, during and after mining, as part of the requirement to implement the EIS at the mine.
  2. Provision of topsoil stockpiles and waste-disposal dumps.
  3. Performing advanced stripping of overburden to gain access to the deposit. 

They, too, must be incorporated into the development / exploration schedule of operations. The major engineering design task in the development of a surface mine is planning the pit; three groups of factors are involved. Namely Natural and geologic factors, Economic factors, Technological factors.