Planning and design for barrier pillar recovery: Three case histories
- Appalachian Mining and Engineering, Inc., Lexington, KY (United States)
Barrier pillars created during mine development provide additional reserves during mine closure and can be the sole access to reserves previously abandoned because of mining height or out of seam dilution limitations. The safe and successful mining of barrier pillars requires a thorough knowledge of the magnitude and distribution of the vertical stress field in addition to the strength and physical properties of the coal, immediate roof, and immediate floor strata. Quantifying the vertical stress field is complicated by the combination of the overburden stress, abutment stresses transferred onto the barrier pillar from adjacent gob areas, and in multiple seam mining, stresses transferred from abandoned subjacent mines. These variables make the extraction and development of barrier pillar reserves a site specific consideration. Three case histories are presented in which barrier pillar development and extraction provides: (1) an access point and the means to ventilate a large area of low seam reserves left by a prior operator after developing only the thicker area of a multiple split reserve, (2) the means to increase total recovery of a deep, thick seam longwall reserve, and (3) opportunities for the development and retreat mining of a two mile long barrier pillar in thick seam reserves.
- OSTI ID:
- 124672
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950811-; ISBN 0-930284-56-9; TRN: IM9548%%262
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 14. conference on ground control in mining, Morgantown, WV (United States), 1-3 Aug 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of 14. International conference on ground control in mining: Proceedings; Peng, S.S. [ed.] [Univ. of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV (United States). Dept. of Mining Engineering]; PB: 330 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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