1st Edition

Continuous Surface Mining Equipment, Operation and Design

Edited By T.S. Golosinski, T.G. Rozgonyi Copyright 1988

    Papers of the Second International Symposium on Continous Surface Mining held in Austin, TX, Oct. 1988. Printed in the Netherlands on acidic paper. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

    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...

    Biography

    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.