Sebelum Hartman mengemukakan pendapatnya, telah ada beberapa

pembagian sistem penambangan menurut beberapa ahli, antara lain :

Menurut Robert S Lewis

Surface mining

Placer mining

Open cut mining

Underground mining

Stope Naturally Supported

- Open stoping

- Open stopes in small orebodies

- Sub level stoping

- Open stopes w ith pillar supports

- Casual pillar

- Room (or stope) and pillar (regular arrangement)

Stopes articially supported

- Shrinkage stoping

- With pillar

- Without pillar

- With subsequent waste filling

- Cut and fill stoping

 - Stulled stopes in narrow veins

- Square set stoping

Caved stopes

- Caving (ore broken by induced caving)

- Block caving

- Sublevel caving

- Top slicing

Combination of supported and caved stopes

Menurut L J Thomas

Surface mining

Alluvial mining

Mineral sands mining

General open pit mining

Surface mining machinary

Open cut mining of bedded deposit

Open pit mining of massive deposit

Abandoned pit

Non-entry mining

Underground mining (pembagian sama dengan Robert S

Lewis )
Menurut K A Sweet

Surface mining

Placer mining

- Panning and sluicing

- Hydraulicking

- Dredging

Open pit

- Single bench

- Mult iple bench

- Strip mining

- Quarry mining

Glory hole

Underground Metalliferous

Self supported opening (natural)

- Open stope mining

- Isolated openings

- Sublevel stoping

- Longhole stoping

- Pillared open stopes

- Random pillars

- Regular pillars
 Open Artificially supported stopes (supported openings)

- Shrinkage stoping (broken ore)

- Cut and fill (waste filled)

- Square set stoping

- Longwall mining

Caving methods (Stress relief)

- Caving (ore broken bay induces collapse)

- Sub level caving

- Block caving

- Top Slicing

Underground Coal Mines

Drift mine

Slop mine

Shaft mine