What is underground mining?

Underground mining is a technique used to access ores and valuable minerals in the country by digging into the ground to extract them. This is unlike techniques, such as mining of an open pit in which the Earth's surface layers are accumulated to access deposits or remove the mountain in which the upper part of the mountain is shaved for access to the red inside. When people think of mining, they often visualize underground mining and many people think that especially coal mines, although many products can be mined underground, some of which are used to access gold deposits. Underground mining requires a lot of logistics to be safe, even with the highly mechanized nature of modern underground mining. Especially for soft ores, a large part of the work is carried out by a machine, not by humans, but it is still important to avoid a decrease in offolis, collapse in the mine, explosion and assortment of other health and safety risks.

The first step in underground mining is developmental mining, in which the shafts are dug into the place to be accessible. During this phase, along with the shafts, things like electricity, along with lifts and coasts, are installed to support the walls of the mine to avoid threatening. Once the mine is developed, active production of production may begin, while the ore has been extracted by the hand, the machine or the mixture of two.

In the shaft mining, the shaft is dug directly down into the ground to access the buried deposits. People get in and out from the mine through the elevators in the shaft and other shafts can be dug to create emergency exits and deal with the needs of ventilation. During the mining of the slope, the sloping shaft is dug, so people approach the mine by moving down the slope. Motorized equipment is usually used so that people can quickly get into and out of the mine.

One of the main needs of underground mining is ventilation. Ventilation is necessary to remove dust, by -productsBurning and by -products of the explosion, along with gases that can be captured in pockets inside the ground. Proper support that prevents collapse is also quite important, as well as excess safety systems including alarms for workers, evacuation shafts, emergency lighting, etc.