Automated mining system
OwnerRobert E. Mihalcininventor
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Abstract
A system and apparatus for transporting a colloidal like mixture of mineral material and water from a mining site to a processing facility comprising at least one automated water gun discharging continuous high velocity stream of water into a mineral stockpile and slurry pit in a predetermined undulating pattern to facilitate the mixing and movement of the mineral material and water into a hydraulic pump inlet disposed behind a crushing grid within the slurry pit wherein the automated water gun is moveably mounted on a portable sled and in operative communication with a water supply conduit having a barrel selectively moveable through a predetermined range of vertical and horizontal motion by a vertical positioning device and a horizontal positioning device respectively.
Claims26
An automated hydraulic mining system for producing and transporting a colloidal like mixture of mineral material and water from a mining site to a processing facility through a mineral delivery conduit comprising at least one automated water gun discharging continuous high velocity streams of water into a mineral stockpile and slurry pit in a plurality of predetermined undulating patterns to facilitate the mixing and movement of the colloidal like mineral material and water mixture through the slurry pit into a pump inlet disposed within the slurry pit, said automated water gun having a barrel selectively moveable through one of said predetermined undulating patterns of vertical and horizontal motion by a vertical positioning device and a horizontal positioning device respectively.
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