Document Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
1998
Abstract
Hydraulic transport of coal has been used for many years on the West Coast of New Zealand to extract small blocks of steeply dipping coal. Recent development at Strongman 2 Mine has seen the use of high pressure monitors to cut coal and a corresponding increase in the scale of production. This paper provides a brief introduction to hydraulic mining, describes the present system used at Strongman 2 and discusses future potential development.
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Publication Details
This conference paper was originally published as Duncan, GJ, Hydraulic coal developments in New Zealand, in Aziz, N (ed), Coal 1998: Coal Operators' Conference, University of Wollongong & the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 1998, 333-342.