CUT AND FILL MINING CUT AND FILL MINING

Cut and fill mining the ore is excavated by drilling and blasting in horizontal slices, starting from the bot advancing upwards as in shrinkage stoping. A slice has a thickness of not more than 3 m. The broken completely removed from the stope, when one slice of ore has been excavated, the corresponding volu waste material upto within 1-3 m of the back before the next slice is attacked. The filling serves both as walsl and as a floor when serves both as support for the walls and as a floor when the next slice above

The fillings material may be waste rock excavated during development, crushed and distributed me method is a normal practice. The filling material may be mill tailings from the ore dressing plant, s boilerplant ash or slag of smelter plants. The mill tailings should be of course sand size as fine tailings mills where the ore needs to be crushed very fine for treatment, are easily washed away by the followin material mixed with water, is transported into the mine and distributed through pipelines. When the wa solid consolidated fill with a smooth surface is produced. Sometimes the material in the last pour in cement to provide a hard working surface.

APPLICATION

Cut and fill mining can be used with steeply dipping as well as mildly dipping orebodies with reasonabl well as large deposits with irregular outline can be worked. It is thus a versatile method. The filling o with steeper deposits. An important advantage of this method is the flexibility and high degree of ext to sub-level stoping and shrinkage, cut and fill method offers advantage of selectivity. High grade or leaving the low grade ore behind in the fill. Dilution of the ore is very little. It is therefore often used for boundaries, ores of rather high valure and unstable wall rocks. The method is preferred to other min ground surface is to be prevented from subsidence.

PREPARATION
The ore block may be prepared in the same way as for shrinkage stoping but the chute raise are not top. The preparation consists of: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Haulage drift along the orebody at the lower main level. Undercut of the stope, usually 5-10 m above the haulage drift. Short raise for manways and ore passes from haulage drift to undercut. Raise from undercut to the level above fro transport of filling material and for ventilation. Provision of sufficient water and filling material and arrangement for their storage and transport. Adequate pumping capacity underground to pump out water overflowing from the filled stope.

The ore slice in cut and fill can be drilled in two different ways, with horizontal shot holes or with upw With the lateer method a certain headroom is required between the back and the fill surface, usu blasting and removal of the ore, this distance is increased to 6-7m, which means that a comparatively

hanging wall are required.