There are more than 120 operating underground stone mines. in the United States that use the room-and-pillar method of. mining. Mining is typically conducted in flat laying or gently. undulating ...

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A series of mine design accidents in the late 1980s resulted in a major research program at the University of New South Wales, Australia, aimed at developing pillar and mine design guidelines. A database of both failed and unfailed Australian underground coal mine pillar case studies was compiled. A procedure was developed to enable the effective width of rectangular pillars to be taken …

In the US, the S-Pillar program was developed to assist in the design of stable pillars in underground stone mines (Esterhuizen et al, 2011). Esterhuizen et al. collected operational information and pillar performances from 34 different stone mines in the Eastern and Midwestern United States.

Synopsis Underground stone mining Is an emerging sector of the U.S. mining industry. As this expansion takes mines under deeper cover, and as more efficient mining methods are utilized, effective stone pillar design methods will become even more Important.

As a result, the study proposes a methodology to explain the pillar strength and failure mechanism with the explicit consideration of naturally existing joint sets in the stone mines which ultimately aims to enhance the pillar design procedures currently used in the United States. Pillar strengths predicted by the SRM approach developed in this ...

Introduction. Rock pillars are commonly used in underground mines to maintain stability of excavations. The estimation of the strength of rock pillars is important for mining engineering, but it is a challenging task because many factors such as geometry of pillars, in-situ stress, variation of rock types and rock mass quality influence pillar strength.

The sudden collapse of approximately 3 Ha of room-and-pillar workings at a limestone mine in southwestern Pennsylvania in 2015 resulted in an air blast that injured three mine workers. Subsequent investigations showed that an area encompassing 35 pillars had collapsed. The pillars were 9–10 m wide and up to 18 m high. A notable geologic feature is the through-going joints that dip at 50–80 ...

Room and pillar mining – A method of underground mining in which approximately half of the coal is left in place to support the roof of the active mining area. Large "pillars" are left while "rooms" of coal are extracted. Room neck - The short passage from the entry into a room.

The determination of the minimum side length of rock pillars in the room and pillar method is of fundamental importance in mining engineering. In the last decades some simple analytical equations were used for this aim: the area of influence method and different empirical formulations for obtaining the pillar strength. This kind of approach can lead to overdimensioning or critical stability ...

ESTERHUIZEN G S, DOLINAR D R, ELLENBERGER J L. Pillar strength in underground stone mines in the united states [J]. International Journal of Rock Mechanics & Mining Sciences, 2011, 48: 42–50. Article Google Scholar [15] WHITTAKER B N, REDDISH D J. Subsidence, occurrence, prediction and control [M].

From a NIOSH pillar performance survey of 34 single level underground stone mining operations in the Eastern and Midwestern United States, underground observations as well as analytical and numerical analyses, a pillar strength (S) equation for stone pillars was developed ; (2) S = 0.65 ∗ U C S ∗ L D F ∗ w 0.3 h 0.59

The S-Pillar software is used for stone mine pillar design. It was written to assist in the design of stable pillars for room-and-pillar workings in underground stone mines. The calculation methods used in S-Pillar are based on observation of actual pillar performance in 34 different underground operations in the eastern and midwestern United ...

Pillar strength in underground stone mines in the United States Int. J. Rock Mech. Min. Sci., 48 ( 2011 ), pp. 42 - 50 Article Download PDF View Record in Scopus Google Scholar

deep room-and-pillar mines. The practice of hydraulic flushing in the United States decreased with the decline ofthe anthracite industry in the 1940's. Currently, use ofhydraulic flushing in the coal industry is limited to subsidence abatement in abandoned underground mines. However, in the metal mines of this country, hydraulic

Towards an Improved Stone Mine Pillar Design Methodology: Ob Evaluation of the Effect of Length on Strength of Slender Pi The Influence of Rock Mass Quality in Controlled Blasting Roof Stability Issues in Underground Limestone Mines in the …

1 Introduction There are more than 120 operating underground stone mines in the United States that use the room-and-pillar method of mining. Mining is typically conducted in flat laying or gently undulating deposits ranging from highly siliceous limestone to …

The Black River and Maysville underground limestone mines operated by Carmeuse Lime and Stone, Inc. in northeastem Kentucky are two of the largest underground limestone operations in the United States. The combined output of these two options has consistently averaged over 5.5- million tons per year for the last decade.

The mathematical model of rock mass in the context of its internal structure, anisotropy, loss of strength, elastic energy accumulation and release is considered. The numerical solution to the problem of quasistatic deformation in a rock mass pillar is obtained by the finite element method. The sequential development of softening and residual strength zones is considered.

Underground stone mines in the United States make use of the room-and-pillar method of mining. A prerequisite for a safe working environment is that the pillars should adequately support the overburden and the pillar ribs and rooms should remain stable during mining.

A survey of stable and unstable pillars in underground stone mines within the Eastern and Midwestern United States identified the causes of pillar instability to provide data for estimating pillar strength . Mines that were likely to have unstable pillars owing to their depth of working or size of pillars were identified as targets for the survey.

NIOSH, 2011, Pillar and Roof Span Design for Underground Stone Mines, 1-64, Pittsburgh, PA･Spokane, WA, the United States. 15 Park, B.N. and Min, K.B., 2017, Two- and Three-Dimensional Bonded-particle Discrete Element Modeling of Mechanical Behavior of Transversely Isotropic Rock, Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Seoul National ...

According to Tulu, in underground mines in the United States, "fall of ground"-related accidents are one of the leading causes of injuries. This occurs when part of the roof or a pillar collapses. Although underground stone mines have generally experienced good ground stability, a recent mine pillar collapse in Whitney, Pennsylvania and ...

Pillar Strength in Underground Stone Mines in the United States. 1/1/2011 - Peer reviewed journal articles. Stone mines in the eastern and midwestern United States use the room-and-pillar method of mining to extract relatively flat-laying sedimentary formations. A survey of pillar performance was carried out to identify potential modes of ...

methods underground mining longwall amp room and pillar mining longwall mining and room and pillar mining are the two basic methods of mining coal underground with room and pillar being the traditional method in the united states both methods are well suited to extracting the relatively flat coalbeds or coal seams typical of, william andrew ...

Developing a Pillar Strength Equation for Stone Mines The development of a pillar strength equation for stone mines followed a similar path as described above. The actual performance of pillars was observed in 34 different mines scattered throughout the Eastern and Midwestern United States. The observations of failed and stable

The developed pillar strength equation can be used to design stable stone mine pillars provided the rock conditions are similar to those included in the study. 1. Introduction. There are more than 120 operating underground stone mines in the United States that use the room-and-pillar method of mining.

The investigation includes an evaluation of empirical pillar strength data presented in the literature and observations of pillar performance in underground limestone mines in the eastern United States, supplemented by numerical modeling in which failure processes and sensitivity of slender pillars to variations in rock mass properties are ...

The slender pillars used in stone mines in the United States present a unique challenge to mine designers. This study has shown that isolated pillar failures have occurred, which have resulted in safety and production concerns. An equation has been developed which can be used to estimate the pillar strength.

Pillar strength in underground stone mines in the United States. Article. ... the pillar strength and selecting a safety factor for design was developed based on observations of stable and failed ...

Esterhuizen GS, Dolinar DR, Ellenberger JL (2011) Pillar strength in underground stone mines in the United States. Int J Rock Mech Miner Sci 48:42–50. Article Google Scholar Ghabraie B, Ren G, Smith JV (2017) Characterising the multi-seam subsidence due to varying mining configuration, insights from physical modelling.

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There are more than 120 operating underground stone mines in the United States that use the room-and-pillar method of mining. The function of pillars in this method is to provide both local and global stability. Local stability is defined as the provision of stable ribs and stable roof conditions that allow safe access to working areas. Global

Request PDF | Improved empirical hard rock pillar strength predictions using unconfined compressive strength as a proxy for brittleness | Pillars are a critical component of underground mining ...

This paper presents the results of research that has been undertaken in order to develop an improved method of determining the strength of hard-rock mine pillars. Pillars are found in various shapes and sizes in all underground mining operations. Prudent engineering design requires that if pillars are to perform as desired, both the pillar strength and the pillar stress must be determined.