DOI: 10.18503/1995-2732-2025-23-3-17-25
Abstract
Relevance. Based on publicly available data on the state of the country's raw material base and the economic results of mining operations for the reporting periods, it has been determined that the coal industry in the country demonstrates a desire to develop. However, the current geopolitical situation and the associated sanctions burden have a negative impact on performance indicators and hinder the nascent development of the coal industry. The departure of key consumers and the redistribution of sales flows have had little significant on mining enterprises and the market situation as a whole. Therefore, the development and implementation of new solutions aimed at increasing the efficiency of deposit development is an urgent task. Objectives are to analyze proposals that are publicly available, the result of which is an increase in the profitability of coal deposit development by optimizing such parameters as the opening scheme, the order of development and dumping, regulation of the mining mode, and to highlight the weaknesses in the proposed solutions that affect the conduct of work, but are currently not taken into account. The selected areas have a consistent interrelation and are therefore considered together. Result. Based on the results of the analysis of the collected information, it was noted that the proposals for optimizing mining operations do not take into account all the features of open-pit coal mining and currently do not allow solving some of the problems for enterprises that have a deficit of developed space for internal dumps, areas for external dumps and related licenses of other subsoil users limiting these areas. Based on the results of the work, the further goal of the study was determined.
Keywords
coal, coal deposits, opening, mining procedure, mining mode, waste disposal
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Kislyakov V.E., Shwartskopf A.V., Fedotov A.S. Review of Approaches to Solving Problems of Opening, Mining Procedure and Dumping of Synclinal Coal Deposits. Vestnik Magnitogorskogo Gosudarstvennogo Tekhnicheskogo Universiteta im. G.I. Nosova [Vestnik of Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University]. 2025, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 17-25. https://doi.org/10.18503/1995-2732-2025-23-3-17-25
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