Intelligent, deep, filling, inventory of six major development trends in foreign mining technology, it is worth learning!

At present, underground mines in the world are pursuing high efficiency and safety, so the level of mechanization and automation are constantly improving.

Swedish Kiruna iron ore, for example. Kiruna Iron Mine is famous for producing high grade (iron content exceeding 70%) iron ore and is currently one of the largest iron ore mines in the world. Its iron ore mining has a history of more than 70 years and has now been converted from open pit mining to underground mining.

The intelligentization of Kiruna Iron Mine is mainly due to the commissioning of large-scale mechanical equipment, intelligent remote control systems, and modern management systems. The highly automated and intelligent mining systems and equipment are the key to ensuring safe and efficient mining.

1) Pioneering: Kiruna Iron Mine is jointly developed by shaft + ramp. The mine has 3 shafts for the improvement of ventilation, ore and waste rock. Personnel, equipment and materials are mainly transported from the slope by trackless equipment. The main lifting shaft is located in the lower part of the ore body. So far, the mining face and main transportation system have been moved down 6 times. The current main transportation level is at 1045m.

2) Drilling charge and blasting:

The roadway tunneling adopts a rock drilling trolley, and the trolley is equipped with a three-dimensional electronic measuring instrument, which can accurately position the drilling hole. The stop rock is made by SimbaW469 remote-controlled rock drilling rig from Atlas, Sweden. The hole diameter is 150mm and the maximum hole depth is 55m. The car uses laser system for accurate positioning. It is unmanned and can be continuously cycled for 24 hours. The annual collapse of minerals can reach 3 million tons.

3) Remote loading and transportation of ore and lifting

The rock drilling, shipment and lifting of the Kiruna iron ore site have been intelligent and automated, and the rock drilling rigs and scrapers have been unmanned.

The ore is loaded with a Toro 2500E remote-controlled scraper from Sandvik/Tomlock, with a single efficiency of 500 t/h. The underground transportation system has two types of tape transportation and automatic rail transportation. Orbital automatic transportation generally consists of 8 trains. The mine car is an automatic bottom unloading truck that is continuously loaded and unloaded. The belt conveyor automatically transports the ore from the crushing station to the metering device, and completes loading and unloading with the shaft bucket. The process is remote control.

4) Remote control ç ¼jet technology support reinforcement technology

The roadway support is supported by spray anchor nets, which is completed by remote-controlled concrete jets. Anchor bolts and steel mesh are installed using bolt trolleys.

Remote control concrete jet

At present, leaching technology has been widely used in the recovery of low-grade copper , gold ore, uranium ore, etc. In the leaching technology, there are three categories of in-situ leaching, heap leaching and in-situ leaching.

The United States, Canada, Australia and other countries deal with 0.15%-0.45% low-grade copper ore, more than 2% copper oxide ore and 0.02%-0.1% uranium ore are basically recovered by heap leaching and in-situ blasting.

In the United States, for example, there are more than 20 mines in the United States that use in-situ blasting copper. For example, the Mine Mine in Nevada, the Nissan copper mine in Arizona's Zonia Copper Mine is above 2.2t, and the copper produced by the Batter Mine and the Copper Queen Mine in Montana is 10.9-14.97t. More than 20% of production, gold production exceeds 30%, and most of uranium production comes from leaching mining.

As the amount of resources continues to decrease, the depth of mining is now deeper and deeper, and the depth is below 1000m. It has brought many difficulties and problems that have not been encountered in shallow mining, such as increased ground pressure, increased rock temperature, and increased difficulties in mine lifting, drainage, support, and ventilation.

Non-mining depth of coal mines in China's current generally not exceed 700-800m, but in recent years there have been some buried to a depth of about 1000m deposits are being developed, melon copper deposit owned Tongling Nonferrous Metals Company, Jinchuan belongs among them.

In foreign countries, especially developed countries, comprehensive measures are adopted for the mine environment. There are strict technical standards for waste water, waste gas, waste residue, dust and noise discharged from mines. Many low-grade mines cannot be built and put into production because of the high cost of environmental protection.

At present, foreign countries also emphasize the establishment of waste-free mines and clean mines. The Walsm coal mine in the Ruhr industrial area in Germany is a successful example. The coal ash from the coal washing plant and coal-fired coal ash and the broken downhole waste rock are added to the cement. Activate the agitation, use the PM pump to hit the underground filling area, and the mine will not discharge any solid waste.

Different fillers are used depending on the situation.

Current filling issues to consider:

1 Focus on building a practical and reliable system. Research and development of effective filling techniques to effectively combine filling operations with mining operations. Pay attention to the management of the filling system.

2 Research can make the existing system reach the optimal design technology, study the particle size distribution that constitutes the high quality filling material, study the improved filling preparation process in the hydrocyclone and the crushing, and study the optimization of the filling. Conveying techniques such as pressure loss, wear, and corrosion optimize the overall design of the filling system.

3 Strengthen the quantitative understanding of the preparation, transportation, charging and discharging and loading deformation process of filling materials, and lay a foundation for safe, stable and efficient mining. At present, the filling processes used in the world include: water sand filling, dry filling, high water solid filling, and cement filling. Cement filling is divided into: segmented tail sand hydraulic filling (high concentration self-slip conveying), other filling hydraulic filling (high concentration self-slip conveying), full tail sand paste self-slip filling and full tail sand paste pumping filling . Currently recommended internationally is the full tailings paste pumping filling.

At present, 12 mines in Canada have been filled with high-concentration paste, and new paste filling systems have been put into operation in South Africa and Australia. The new filling process will better meet the requirements of protecting resources, protecting the environment, improving efficiency and ensuring mine development. Filling mining will have broader prospects for mining development in the 21st century.

Polymetallic nodules occur in the seabed around 3000-5000m. There must be viable mining methods to mine. Therefore, all countries in the world have given priority to the development of reliable mining methods, and have carried out a large number of experimental studies, and some even conducted deep-sea intermediate mining tests. From the late 1960s to the present, the ocean mining methods developed and tested internationally are mainly divided into three types: continuous chain bucket (CLB) mining method, submarine remote control vehicle mining method and fluid lifting mining method:

(1) Continuous chain bucket (CLB) mining method: This method was proposed by the Japanese in 1967. This method is simpler. It is mainly composed of mining vessels, streamers, ropes and towing vessels. At a certain interval, the rope is tied to the streamer and placed on the bottom of the sea. The streamer is carried by the towing boat under the handling of the towing vessel to carry out the downward movement, the shovel and the upward movement. The stepless rope circulation operation constitutes continuous. Acquisition loop.

The main feature of CLB is that it can adapt to changes in water depth to maintain normal operation. However, the output of the CLB method can only reach 100t/d. Far from the requirements of industrial mining. Therefore, the CLB mining law was abandoned in the late 1970s.

(2) Submarine remote control vehicle mining method: This method is mainly proposed by the French. The submarine remote control car is an unmanned submersible mining vehicle, which is mainly composed of four major systems: mining, self-propelled, buoyancy control and ballast. Under the supervision of the sea mother ship, the mining vehicle sneaked into the seabed to collect tuberculosis according to the instructions. After filling the tuberculosis, it floated out of the water surface and went to the mother ship to accept the warehouse to remove the tuberculosis. The sea surface mother ship can usually control several mining vehicles to operate at the same time.

The mining system has a large investment and the product value is not high. Under the circumstances that there is no economic benefit for several decades, the French Ocean Tuberculosis Research and Development Association stopped research in 1983, but the mining principle of this mining vehicle is regarded as promising. Acquisition technology.

(3) Fluid lifting mining method: At present, the internationally recognized fluid lifting mining method has the most industrial application prospects. The method is that after the mining ship arrives at the mining area, the concentrator and the riser are connected and gradually released into the sea vessel concentrator for collecting the tuberculosis in the seafloor sediment and performing preliminary treatment, and the hydraulic or pneumatic lifting method is adopted. The water in the tube moves upwards at a sufficient speed to transport the nodules to the surface mining vessel.

With the advent of the development of the ocean in the 21st century, ocean mining technology is particularly important. The development of modern high-tech has laid a bridge for the development of ocean resources. Its formation and development will have a positive and far-reaching impact on the world's marine economy, culture and human ocean consciousness.

The development trend of mining technology in foreign mines is in addition to the six aspects mentioned above. There are also natural caving mining technologies that are becoming more sophisticated, and applications are expanding. In addition, a large number of new technologies have emerged in rock drilling and blasting . Mine rock mechanics and engineering have been regarded as an independent discipline. Play an increasingly important role in the construction and production of mines.

With the development of industry, the demand for mineral resources is increasing. At present, both developed and developing countries regard the possession of resources and development resources as strategic measures. Therefore, a large number of high-efficiency Safe, low-cost mining technologies and methods need to keep up with the pace of advanced technology and develop resources.