Mine mining system
AssigneesKomatsu Ltd., The University of Tokyo
InventorsYuichi Kodama, Masaaki Uetake, Kazunari Kawai, Shinichi Terada, Rui Fukui
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Abstract
A mine mining system mining ore from a vein in a mine including a mining area provided inside an ore body, a first mine shaft provided inside the ore body, and a second mine shaft connecting the mining area and the first mine shaft to each other, the mine mining system includes: a transporting machine which loads the ore mined in the mining area and transports the ore to a soil discharge area while traveling in the first mine shaft; and a loading machine which stays in the second mine shaft, excavates the ore in the mining area, conveys the excavated ore in a direction moving away from the mining area, and loads the ore on the transporting machine.
Claims10
A mine mining system mining ore from an ore body in a mine including a plurality of mining areas provided inside the ore body, a plurality of first mine shafts provided inside the ore body, and a plurality of second mine shafts connecting the mining areas and the plurality of first mine shafts, a plurality of third mine shafts connected to the plurality of first mine shafts, and a plurality of circuits formed by the plurality of third mine shafts and the plurality of first mine shafts, each of the second mine shafts being interconnected across two or more of the plurality of first mine shafts and extending along a respective number of the mining areas, the mine mining system comprising:
- a transporting machine configured to load the ore mined in one or more of the mining areas and transport the ore to a soil discharge area adjacent to at least one of the plurality of third mine shafts by autonomously traveling in a circuit of the plurality of circuits;
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- a loading machine configured to stay in one of the plurality of second mine shafts when the transporting machine travels in the circuit, excavate the ore in one of the mining areas, convey the excavated ore in a direction moving away from the one of the mining areas, and load the ore on the transporting machine staying in the circuit.
The mine mining system according to claim-1,
- wherein the circuit includes two first mine shafts of the plurality of first mine shafts and two third mine shafts of the plurality of third mine shafts, and
- the transporting machine travels in the two first mine shafts in different traveling directions respectively.
A mine mining system mining ore from an ore body in a mine including a plurality of mining areas provided inside the ore body, a plurality of first mine shafts provided inside the ore body, and a plurality of second mine shafts connecting the mining areas and the plurality of first mine shafts, a plurality of third mine shafts connected to the plurality of first mine shafts, and a plurality of circuits formed by the plurality of third mine shafts and the plurality of first mine shafts, each of the second mine shafts being interconnected across two or more of the plurality of first mine shafts and extending along a respective number of the mining areas, the mine mining system comprising:
- a transporting machine configured to load the ore mined in one or more of the mining areas and transports the ore to a soil discharge area adjacent to at least one of the plurality of third mine shafts by autonomously traveling in a circuit of the plurality of circuits;
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- a loading machine configured to stay in one of the plurality of second mine shafts with a space left inside the plurality of first mine shafts so that the transporting machine can travel therein when the transporting machine travels in the circuit, excavate the ore in one of the mining areas, convey the excavated ore in a direction moving away from the one of the mining areas, and load the ore on the transporting machine staying in the circuit,
- wherein the transporting machine travels in a circuit of the plurality of circuits in one direction,
- the circuit is formed by two first mine shafts of the plurality of first mine shafts and two third mine shafts of the plurality of third mine shafts, and
- the two third mine shafts are respectively connected to the two first mine shafts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.