US 2024/0351787 A1 · Transporting Mined Material

Abstract

Mined material is transported within and outside a mine (10) in containers (26) that are fixed. discrete load units. namely containers that define a fixed maximum volume that can be carried in each container. The containers can be carried on or coupled to and then removed from vehicles (16) or other transport options. such as flatbed trucks. flatbed rail carriages or overhead suspension units. The containers can be stored at designated container storage facilities (28) in the mine. The container storage facilities are holding areas for loaded containers at mines until decisions are made to transport the containers to mineral processing plants (30) in the mine or to end-use customers. for example via rail to a shipping port (24).

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Dependent claims

A method of mining in a mine includes:

(a) mining an area in the mine;
(b) loading a mined material in the mining area into a container that is or can be demountably located on a “movable unit” or is or can be demountably coupled to a “moving unit”;
(c) transporting the loaded container from the mining area on the “movable unit” or the “moving unit” to a container storage facility in the mine or a mineral processing plant in the mine;
and
(d) removing the loaded container from the “movable unit” or the “moving unit” in the container storage facility and storing the loaded container in the facility;
or
(e) removing the loaded container from the “movable unit” or the “moving unit” at the mineral processing plant and processing the material in the plant.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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Abstract

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