Waste rock is commonly deposited in large piles that are typically 10 to 30 m high but range up to 150 m in height and up to several square kilometers in area Blowes 1997 In coal mining waste rocks are referred to as spoils Lottermoser 2007 Some waste rock piles tend to create potential problems such as acid mine drainage AMD
selenium concentrations is correlated with cumulative waste rock produced by mining Figure 2 Swanson 2010 To investigate potential environmental effects in the watershed the joint industry
Coal mine waste rock is an inevitable product of driving entries and the exploitation and washing of coal resources Fan et al 2014; Yossifova 2014 During the extraction process the overlying strata gradually sink and collapse gradually forming a caving zone a fractural zone and a bending zone above the coal seam Peng 2008; Adhikary and
Open pit mining using drill and blast has been taking place in central Evia Greece for many decades This is so due to the presence of ferronickel ores in the area As a consequence of the mining activity large volumes of overburden Upper Cretaceous limestone are being annually extracted and deposited at predefined sites creating rock waste dumps or
The depths of open pit mines have been increasing in the last few decades This transformation generates a vast amount of waste rock material per unit mining area imposing a significant economic social and environmental liability on the mine operators The scarcity of dumping land along with the rise in population competing urbanization and associated
Water use and energy consumption in mining have been identified as two key business risks by the mining industry Further it is identified that future availability of water supply is a significant risk for the hard rock mining sector and a range of treatment methods for mitigating the impending risk are essential as competition for access to water increases with increased
Additionally data on mining waste is collected comprising the production of overburden and waste rock tailings as well as total material mined waste rock ore mined and the stripping ratio
Coal mine waste rocks mainly broken gangue can be used as filling materials to backfill into goafs Under the overburden load the backfill body is vulnerable to compressive deformation and particle breakage With the increase in mining depth the overlying strata will impose different loads on waste rock filling materials at different loading velocities which
About 50 million tonnes/year of waste rock from coal mining is generated in the limited area of the thickly populated Upper Silesian Coal Basin USCB in Poland There are 380 coal mining waste
The quantity of ore mined and waste rock overburden or barren rock removed to produce a refined unit of a mineral commodity its rock to metal ratio RMR is an important metric for understanding mine wastes and environmental burdens In this analysis we provide a comprehensive examination of RMRs for 25 commodities for 2018 The results
The major waste product of coal mining is waste rock which is stored in dumps of various sizes Although the adverse effects of coal waste rock dumps on ecosystems and human health are widely recognised there is little information on their internal hydrological and geochemical processes in the peer reviewed literature Coal and conventional
Coal still fulfils the needs of the exponentially expanding demand of energy sectors especially in developing nations of the world In India this demand is fulfilled majorly 93% by surface mines or open pit mines that simultaneously produces a vast amount of coal mine overburden OB or waste rock
Management of solid waste and protecting the ecological balance of the region are key challenges that the coal mining industry has to face This study evaluated the effect of solid waste backfilling mining on the overlying strata movement and surface deformation variation pattern in slice mining The mechanical characteristics of different cemented paste backfills
1 Coal mining and coal combustion in power plants produce several types of wastes The mining process itself produces waste coal or solid mining refuse which is a mixture of coal and rock ; The mining process also produces liquid coal waste which is then stored in impoundments ; Pollution control equipment used for coal combustion produces coal ash or fly ash as well as
Waste dumps generated from mining that exposes sulfur bearing overburden can be active sources of acid generation with the potential to severely contaminate soils surface and groundwater and endanger both local and downstream ecosystems A waste rock management strategy ensure that disposal of such material is inert or at least stable and
Coal mining industries generate hundreds of millions of tonnes of waste coal rock and cleaning waste stream containing fine coal a by product of previous coal processing operations coal gangue coal sludge fly ash coal mine drainage and coal bed methane CBM that contaminate the landscape in the mining areas
Coal mine waste rock is generated during coal extraction and is usually disposed of in non engineered dumps The dumps are extended vertically to 100 120 m height to reduce the spatial footprint The waste mass generally consists of loose cohesionless material associated with high heterogeneity so the dumps are prone to slope failures A typical dump
The first type is waste rock which is the result of mining and excavation activities and is generated at all sites regardless of the commodities targeted or extractive process taken Mitigating acid rock drainage risks while recovering low sulfur coal from ultrafine colliery wastes using froth flotation Miner Eng 29 2012 pp 13 21
The yield rate accounts for about 10% 15% of the total coal mining volume representing one of the most abundant types of solid waste Experimental research on application of mixed aggregate of mining waste rock and tailings in downward layered approach and cemented filling mining method Gold Science and Technology 29 2021 pp 564 572
In China coal mine waste rock CMWR produced in coal mining and processing is the greatest source of industrial solid waste in terms of production accumulation volume and occupied area There are about billion tons of CMWR stockpiled into more than 1700 waste dumps which occupied 150 km 2 of land Bian et al 2009 Zhao et al 2008
In the extraction of the valuable coal products the production of 1 tonne of hard coal generates tonne of extractive waste material comprising waste rock including lost coal and washery rejects and tailings both containing economically recoverable coal