Surface Mine Production — Winter 2019

Draw a flow diagram of mineral extraction & mineral transportation in open cast mining

Explain operation and maintenance of shovel.

Enlist the different types of slope failures. Explain any one.

How slope stability id protected and monitored?

Differentiate between opencast mines and underground mines.

Evaluate the types of transport system in open cast mining.

Evaluate different types of drilling equipments used in mining.

What is blasting? Explain coyote and secondary blasting

What are the drainage requirements in surface mining?

List out theopen cast mining machinery

Define the terms associated with surface mining.

Describe haulage track, its lying method and maintenance procedure.

Explain spreaders and reclaimers.

explain the terms bench, bench height, bench width, cut and face angle.

Write a note on width and height of the bench with illustrative diagram

What is stripping ratio? How it will help in determining choice of mining?

Explain major operation in surface mining.

Describe merits and limitations of open cast mining.

Explain the factors affecting the choice of a transport system in opencast mining.

Point out the comparison between diesel shovel and electrical shovel

What is Reclamation? Explain land reclamation.

Give the machinery used in ground preparation and explain any two.

Give the points to deploy a dragline in the surface mining

List out types of reclaimer for reclaiming the material and explain bucket wheel reclaimer with it’s a neat sketch.

Explain overcastting by Dragline with its various methods1