Journal Journal for Resources, Mining, Tunnelling, Geotechnics and Equipment 02 | 2015 Natural resources Shaft hoisting Europe Foundation TBM in Coal mine Australia Geothermics Road heading Kazakhstan Gotthard Base Tunnel Cutter-Loader Drums Russia GeoResources Verlag ISSN | Online 2364-8430 • Print 2364-8422 www.georesources.net Wengeler & Kalthoff ToolsTools forfor drillingdrilling andand rockboltingrockbolting MINING. TUNNELLING. CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY. STEELMAKING. Wengeler & Kalthoff produce one-off and series- Wengeler & Kalthoff manufactured boring and hammer drilling tools for Hammerwerke GmbH & Co. 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The complex, tricky general condi- tions and the high demands placed on the availability of the shaft 5 A WORD ON hoisting system were and still are a particular challenge for buil- German Expertise for securing Natural Resources ding and operating the facilities. This report in Part 1 deals with Martin Wedig constructing and operating the shaft hoisting system in the form of a rock, material and manriding shaft and installations to cool the air in the Faido tunnel section during the excavation phase. GEOTECHNICS Part 2 examines the dismantling and modification of the shafts 8 Creative geotechnical Solutions for Renovating the and the functions of the ultimate hoisting facilities in the Sedrun Dresden Old Masters Picture Gallery in the Zwinger shafts during the rail tunnel’s operational phase. Part 1: Foundations for a new Freight Elevator Tunnelling • Shaft construction • Switzerland • Suppliers • Shaft hoisting • Air cooling Jens Jähnig and Annett Geppert Renovating the Old Masters Picture Gallery in the east wing of MINING AND TUNNELLING the Zwinger in Dresden also represents a sophisticated task in 28 Innovative Crossover TBM Excavation at the geotechnical terms. Part 1 of this report provides a few brief Grosvenor Coal Mine in Australia general details on the renovation project. It then deals with how the piles required for the freight elevator were installed. Liz Stone and Desiree Willis The tricky subsoil, conservation and the fact that the museum A coal mine in Australia is the first in the nation to utilize Tunnel had to remain open were special challenges. Boring Machines (TBM) for mine access. The highly successful Geotechnics • Foundations • Piling • Subsoil • debut of mechanized mining at the Anglo American Coal Mine Conservation • Construction operation ultimately achieved rates 14 times faster than the traditionally used roadheader method. Not only that, but the TBM was a unique type of hybrid machine known as a Crossover (XRE) GEOTECHNICS AND ENERGY TBM – capable of excavating in both hard rock and EPB mo- 12 Creating an innovative geothermal Point Heating des. This paper will discuss the challenges and triumphs of the System Crossover TBM excavation at the Grosvenor Coal Mine, and the Damian Schink potential for TBM usage in mines worldwide. The availability of points during the winter months is of key signi- Mining • Tunnelling • Australia • TBM • Coal • Innovation ficance for rail services running smoothly. In order to ensure that MINING the switch blades, the moving parts of switches, do not freeze, they are kept free of snow and ice by means of heating systems. 34 Kazakhstan: Driving Headings at great Depths in Apart from conventional electric and gas-operated heating sys- tricky Rock in a Chrome Ore Mine tems a geothermal switch heating system that does not require Sergej Hübscher, Franz Stangl, Eugen Hoppe, an external power source is now available, which is approved by Werner Eisfeld and Olaf Schmidt the Federal Railway Authority in Germany (EBA). This new techno- logy opens the way for energy-conscious and low-cost heating. The chrome ore reserves in Kazakhstan are numbered among the biggest and richest anywhere in the world. Tricky geolo- gical conditions involving major convergences have to be Geotechnics • Energy • Geothermics • Rail infrastructure • countered by heading technology tried-and-tested in Germa- Innovation • Reducing cost ny. Towards this end, two German mining enterprises found- ed a subsidiary in Kazakhstan in 2011. In October 2012, it was TUNNELLING awarded a contract for driving 4,150 m of headings. On August 18 Gotthard Base Tunnel: 15, 2013, initial blasting took place at a depth of some 900 m th The Sedrun Shaft Hoisting Resources for the “Producing a headway at level –480 m at the ‘10 An- niversary of Kazakhstan’s Independence Mine’ project”. Fol- Part 1: Tunnel Construction Phase lowing a difficult start-up phase in 2013 and a good start to Michael Flender 2014, around 1,250 m of heading with bends, station areas and The 57 km long Gotthard Base Tunnel was produced in five roadway junctions had been produced until Mid April 2015. contract sections with three intermediate points of attack. The Mining • Kazakhstan • Ore mining • Road heading • NATM GeoResources Journal 2 | 2015 Content www.georesources.net MINING AND TUNNELLING bility on the one hand and at development of a procedure and 40 Selecting Parameters of Cutter-Loader programme support for choosing parameters of working organs Drums for specific Operating Conditions of cutter-loaders meant for specific operating conditions. A. Zich, Yu. N. Linnik and V. Yu. Linnik Mining • Coal • Cutter-Loader • Database • Cutability • Parameter analysis • Programme support Cutting-loading machines that are currently manufactured have capabilities consistent with the averaged operating con- PRODUCT PRESENTATION ditions. Therefore, sometimes, especially when coal beds con- tain difficult-to-break dirt beds and large hard inclusions, capa- 45 Bringing the Benefits of Mobile Computing bility of cutter-loaders falls short of the standards accepted for to the Mining Industry the machine output, dynamic load, coal sizing and reliability. Christian Funk This is in some measure justified in case of a low face output. Mining is an industry in transition. Mobile technology can However, in longwalling or horizon-face mining, it is required to help to increase the efficiency and to acquire and relay data select each cutting-loading machine individually, from the view from anywhere. Thus, mobile computers and tablets have to point of both enhancement of productivity and improvement address mobile computing requirements in harsh environ- of coal sizing. This first of all relates to cutting bits that come in ments. direct contact with coal and generate overall and dynamic loa- ding of the machine. 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