METHOD OF OPEN DEVELOPMENT OF STEEP DEPOSITS OF AREA FORM Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC E21C41/26 

FIELD: mining.

SUBSTANCE: method comprises formation of the working area, the technology of mining of overburden benches and ensuring of load-transport communication of working horizons with the surface, mining of the overburden benches of the working area is carried out with excavators with elongated work equipment, taking the height of the benches equal to a sesquialteral height of digging of the excavators. At that, to prevent the collapse of deflectors and hangers on the bench slope above the height of the excavator digging the pre-splitting of its upper part is made by a) contour blasting or b) preliminary slit-formation, formation of the working area is carried out with the use of a cascade scheme of mining of overburden benches, at that the scope of work of each bench is divided to the passive with minimal working areas with a width that provides two-way movement of technology vehicles and its manoeuvring, and an active, working platforms of which include minimum working platforms, and volumes of overburden rocks ready for extraction, the relative length of active edge of each overburden bench is determined by the mathematical formula. Blasting of volumes of overburden rocks ready for extraction of the bench is carried out from the calculation for the entire blasted amount can not be completely placed on the working platform of this bench and on the minimal working platform of the underlying bench adjacent to it, opening the working benches is carried out by steep sliding ramps with longitudinal slope to 12-15° with the condition of use of vehicles that can overcome such slope, and the width providing location of collapse of blasted rock mass during their expansion and simultaneously through pass of process of technology vehicles, the expansion of steep ramps is carried out using track and wheel loaders by dividing the collapse of the blasted rock mass to the horizontal and inclined layers with height determined by taking into account the path of movement of the loader bucket.

EFFECT: reduction of current stripping ratio in the initial period of development of the deposit.

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