Continuous Surface Mining

Tad.S. Golosinski (Edited by) Department of Mining, Metallurgical & Petroleum Engineering, University of Alberta, Tibor G. Rozgonyi (Edited by) Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University.

• Preface, Keynote Address, Customisation in BWE Desigbn; A second lignite mine at Neyveli; Surface mining of Polish lignite despoists with complex geological structure; Planning and implementing direct sidecasting systems in lignite surface mining of the GDR; Field investigations of oil sand diggability with a bucketwheel evavator; Mining of hard erratics in overburden of lignite mines; Excavation of box cutst and mine opening with across-pit(XPS) systems; Selective conveying and homogenization in the Belchatow mine; Application of the first continous mining system in a Chinese ligate mine; Economic design of bucketweheel excavators and spreaders for medium throughput rates; Continuous surface mining of coal in Czechoslovakia; Bucketwheel excavators developed for Neyveli opencast mines; Type and application of overburden spreaders; End around conveyor or cross pit conveyor; High angle conveyors-HACs for surface mining- 1988; A survey of conveyor belttension calculation methods; Diagnostic of bevel and cylindrial gears in surface mines...