Surface And Underground Excavations - Methods, Techniques And Equipment

A practical guide to the latest technologies and developmentsavailable for any type of surface or underground excavation. The opening chapters focus on unit operations, including drilling, explosives and blasting, mucking, haulage, hoisting, supports and reinforcement, while the following chapters describe excavation techniques for various operations such as tunnelling, raising, sinking, drifting, stoping, quarrying and surface mining, underground mining, pillar blasting and liquidation. The design, planning and development of excavationsis also covered, and special attention is paid to the construction of surface and subsurface excavations, and to new ways of choosing stoping methods through incremental analysis. In addition, a final chapter features illustrative case studies on heavy underground blasting during pillar recoveries.Tatiya, Ratan Raj is the author of 'Surface And Underground Excavations - Methods, Techniques And Equipment ' with ISBN 9789058096272 and ISBN 9058096270.