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This document contains 5 questions from an MN 327 Coal Mining tutorial. Question 1 asks to calculate the average stripping ratio from data provided in a table of tons of coal and overburden mined in different sections. Question 2 asks to determine the break-even stripping ratio (BESR) for mining a 60% coal deposit with given selling price, costs, and recovery. Question 3 provides estimates to calculate the waste stripping cost per ton needed to not exceed a break-even stripping ratio of 3.5. Question 4 asks to calculate the break-even stripping ratio and minimum profit targeted given production costs, stripping costs, selling price, and a maximum ratio of 3.25. Question 5 provides a sketch and data to calculate

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This document contains 5 questions from an MN 327 Coal Mining tutorial. Question 1 asks to calculate the average stripping ratio from data provided in a table of tons of coal and overburden mined in different sections. Question 2 asks to determine the break-even stripping ratio (BESR) for mining a 60% coal deposit with given selling price, costs, and recovery. Question 3 provides estimates to calculate the waste stripping cost per ton needed to not exceed a break-even stripping ratio of 3.5. Question 4 asks to calculate the break-even stripping ratio and minimum profit targeted given production costs, stripping costs, selling price, and a maximum ratio of 3.25. Question 5 provides a sketch and data to calculate

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MN 327: Coal Mining

Tutorial 1
Question 1
Calculate average stripping ratio from the coal and overburden mined as illustrated in table below;
Section Tonnes of coal Tonnes of
3
×10 overburden ×103
4 2266 2698
6 5075 1389
8 3763 1677
10 4423 3622
12 7872 2029
14 5657 4416
16 5760 3526
18 10445 3904
20 8181 9050

Question 2
Determine the BESR in mining and processing a 60% coal deposit if the selling price of coal $163/t
and the overall unit costs are $68/t and the cost of handling unit weigh of waste is $20/ton. The
overall recovery is 92%.

Question 3
A coal mine is mined using open pit. The following values are estimated based on the deposit
Avarage grade 70%
Mining cost/ tone of coal 16$
Treatment cost /tone ore 20$
Selling price 200$/tone coal
Plant recovery 90%
What would be the waste stripping cost per tone if break even stripping ratio should not exceed 3.5?

Question 4
Calculate break even stripping ratio when mining coal with production cost of $47/t, stripping cost of
$2.8/t and selling price of $60/t. if management indicated that the pit should not be mined beyond
BEST of 3.25, what will be the minimum profit targeted?

Question 5
Calculate instantaneous and overall stripping ratio in the following sketch.
Assume that:
– The pit is deepened in bench height increments of 25 ft;
– The minimum pit width is 100 ft;
– Overall slope angle is 45◦
– The density of the ore and waste is the same;
– The ore is of constant grade.
– 6th bench above has a depth of 150 ft.
Answers
Mined out area SR= 0.36
Bench 7
SR (instantaneous) = 1.125
SR (overall) = 0.48
Bench 8
SR (instantaneous) = 1.375
SR (overall) = 0.60
For bench 9:
SR (instantaneous) = 1.625
SR (overall) = 0.72

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