Hanging Wall Mining

The dip of a fault plane is its angle of inclination measured from the horizontal.

Hanging wall mining.

When working a tabular ore body the miner stood with the footwall under his feet and with the hanging wall above him. Cibaliung underground gold mine applies cut and fill mining method to optimize ore production and maintain underground stability. Hanging wall definition the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore. The two sides of a non vertical fault are known as the hanging wall and footwall.

The red color is 100 yield zone which means failure area. This is a reason to analyze the stope geometry impact on hanging wall decline failure. Other articles where hanging wall is discussed. Hanging wall and footwall.

And hanging wall decline. This situation however is generally found only in cirques cut into flat plateaus. In an ideal cirque the headwall is semicircular in plan view. Delineation ore body is called the footwall.

Cut and fill mining is a method of short hole mining used in steeply dipping or irregular ore zones in particular where the hanging wall limits the use of long hole methods. This terminology comes from mining. More common are headwalls angular in map view due to irregularities in height along. The overlying block of a fault having an inclined fault plane.

Dip of ore body is 80 and the thickness are varies between 5 m to 15 m. Mining terminology about hanging wall. The ore is mined in horizontal or slightly inclined slices and then filled with waste rock sand or tailings. Hanging wall synonyms hanging wall pronunciation hanging wall translation english dictionary definition of hanging wall.

Cirques tarns u shaped valleys arêtes and horns. Figure 4 shows the percentage of yield element. The fault strike is the direction of the line of intersection between the fault plane and earth s surface. The hanging wall occurs above the fault plane and the footwall occurs below it.

Existing 5 m 5 m height and width of stope geometry has a potential new design to increase production of gold due to variety of thick ore however serious shotcrete failures often occur in hanging wall decline. An arcuate cliff called the headwall. This video is unavailable.