Description

Principles and Practices of Modern Coal Mining is a comprehensive text book on the theory and practice of coal mining. It highlights the principles and describes the modern techniques of surface and underground coal mining citing examples from India and abroad. It deals with the exploitation of coal seams of different thicknesses and dips occurring in a variety of conditions. Emerging technologies of coal mining and their applications have also been amply discussed.

After an introductory chapter tracing the history of coal mining and the development of coal mining industry in different principal coal producing countries and highlighting the emerging technologies of coal mining the world over, the book offers a chapter by chapter discussion of the state of art of underground and surface coal mining technology.

Every aspect of science of coal mining from geological occurrence and exploration to planning and exploitation of coal seams, including management of environment has been scrutinised by the author. For the professionals in the coal industry as well as to the planners, researchers and students of mining engineering, the book will be a useful reference.

• Introduction
• Occurrence and Characteristics of Coal Deposits
• Exploration
• Opening up of Coal Seams
• Choice of Coal Mining Methods
• Bord and Pillar Method of Mining
• Longwall Mining
• Mining of Thick Coal Seams
• Coal Face Mechanisation
• Hydraulic Mining of Coal
• Underground Gasification of Coal
• Strata Control in Coal Mines
• Subsidence in Coal Mines
• Coal Mining Explosives and Blasting
• Opencast Mining of Coal Deposits
• Planning of Coal Mines
• Appendices