Conference Proceedings
The Australasian Ground Control Conference An ISRM Regional Symposium (AusRock Conference) 2022
Conference Proceedings
The Australasian Ground Control Conference An ISRM Regional Symposium (AusRock Conference) 2022
Ground support systems at Rampura Agucha Underground Mine
Rampura Agucha Pb-Zn Mine (RAM) is located about 200 km to the south-west of Jaipur in the state of Rajasthan, India. Open pit mining operations commenced in 1988 and continued to 2018. RAM open pit footprint is the largest in India with length of 2000 m, width 1500 m and depth of 400 m. Development of an underground mine under the operating pit commenced in 2013, through trial mining longhole open stoping with cemented backfill was established as a preferred mining method. Nine years in operations underground mine has reached the production capacity of 4.5 MT, which represent more than 70 per cent of the ore volume mined by the pit. RAM is currently the world second largest underground Pb-Zn mine.
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B Banerjee, S Parihar and N Kumar
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