Question: A retreat longwall coal mining system utilises twin accesses on both the intake and return sides of a panel whose dace width is 3 0

A retreat longwall coal mining system utilises twin accesses on both the intake and return sides of a panel whose dace width is 300m. if the access drives are 5m wide and chain pillars are 20m wide between the accesses determine the extraction ratio for the following cases a) Panel under development b) Panel under production It may be assumed that rib pillars 40m wide are left for support between panels. It can also be assumed that a barrier pillar of 40m width is left to protect the main mine entries and that the panel length is 3km

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