FIELD: mining industry.
SUBSTANCE: present invention relates to the field mining using thermal fragmentation for the extraction of ore from narrow veins. The method of ore extraction from a vein with opposite side walls involves drilling of pilot holes in the vein directly, with certain pitch along the vein, reaming of the pilot holes by thermal fragmentation until the vein is fragmented, and removal of fragmented ore along the vein. The pitch is determined by the vein width. Along a part of the vein, the pilot holes are reamed gradually according to the given configuration, each second pilot hole is reamed in a greater degree, for its connection to the opposite adjacent pilot holes reamed earlier. The pilot holes are drilled and reamed in a given sequence, starting from drilling of the first group of three pilot holes, the first and third holes from the first group are reamed before reaming the second hole from this group. After the first group of holes, a group of two holes is drilled, the second hole from the second group being reamed before reaming the first hole from the second group. Fragmented ore is removed by suction.
EFFECT: profitable mining of narrow ore veins.
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