METHOD TO RECOVER ABANDONED PITS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CEMETERY Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC E21C41/32 

FIELD: mining.

SUBSTANCE: method includes separate extraction, movement and piling of soil layer and stripping rocks, mining of a quarry field, filling of the mined space of the pit with construction wastes and further compaction. Then terracing is carried out at one of pit slopes with the help of a bulldozer. Places for burial of remains are arranged on terraces. On the other slope of the pit a vertical wall is arranged for burial of urns with ashes of deceased, where horizontal rows of niches are arranged, being made by means of horizontal pushing of pipe sections of rectangular cross section.

EFFECT: reduced labour inputs and cost of recovery works, rational use of land areas.

3 cl, 2 dwg