Presented by:-

SURYA PRAKASH GAUND

6TH SEM,36G10
1. This method starts from a raise driven through
the centre of the projected stope.
2. A stope drive is carried below the crown pillar
and face is benched underhand for short hole
blasting.
3. A second stope drive carried some 3 to 5m
above the haulage level and cones are cut into
the floor of this drift.
4. The face is benched in a series of benches of
1.8m high 1.2m wide,with the overall face
dipping at approx. 60deg.
5. After blasting ,the ore falls down the raise.
6. Stoping requires a considerable amount of physical
effort on the part of miners as benches must be
cleaned by hand prior to drilling and drills and
explosives must be hauled into the stope.
7. Good hanging wall and foot wall are necessary to
prevent scaling.
8. Stulls are occasionally left for support in underhand
stope and roof bolts are also used where necessary.
1. Narrow veins at steep dips.
2. Strong walls.
3. Strength of ore is rarely a determining factor.
1. A row of stulls are placed, lagged and tracks
are laid on them with timber.
2. A level-pillar may be left over back of stope
which is formed by driving a drift from the
raise and stoping below it.
The choice between these two depends
on grade of ore.The pillar is required to
support the walls also.
1. All broken ore must be moved along the face to
the heel of stope. Amount of shoveling required
depends on:-
• General slope of stope face, which may be varied
by changing the proportionate lengths and height
of the benches.
• Dip of the vein which together with stope face,
determines the pitch of the footwall corner of the
stope and amount of broken ore which will hang
and requires shoveling.
 Generally all the matter is usually sent to
lower level. In narrow veins, where general slope of
stope is kept sufficiently flat,waste may be stored and
stored on stulls.
On flat dips,regardless of vein width,waste may be
stored on footwall.
 In a steep vein the area of unsupported and
inaccessible walls overhanging a stope constantly
increases. This makes an open underhand stope
dangerous in weak grounds and is a serious
disadvantage.
So in narrow veins, slabs may be
supported by stulls, larger areas of walls by Artificial
pillars of waste piled on rows of stulls. These stulls
are placed roughly on opposite benches , their dia
varies with the width of veins and local conditions
from 8 to 14 in
Distance between stulls may be 3 to 6ft.Pillars of ores
may be left where desired
1. Drilling is easy as one has to stand on firm
ground.
2. Simple in operation.
3. Dangerous climbing is avoided.
1. Overhanging of walls constantly increases.
2. Manual loading.
3. Method is highly laborious.
4. Large use of timber.
5. Difficult to maintain the shape of the steps.
•Mosabani mines.
•Hutti gold mine.