Industrial studies of productive development systems at the Polar Mine of Norilsk Combine

Abstract

At the Zapolyarny mine of the Norilsk Combine, the complex conditions of the disseminated ore deposit make it difficult to develop mining systems and select their individual design elements. The lack of similar examples in the global mining practice forced to search for new ways of solving mining engineering issues, to check and correct the decisions made. Rapid growth rates of ore production led to the fact that the experimental application of new variants of systems and methods of mining pressure control went simultaneously with operational works. Sometimes this helped to solve problems as quickly as possible, and at other times, on the contrary, it made it difficult to reach the right conclusions.