Purpose. The solution to one of the important problems of the underground mining method is to substantiate cost-effective, technologically feasible and safe variants for mining steeply dipping low-thickness ore bodies. Methods. Mining systems are substantiated on the basis of a detailed analysis of the developed and existing experiential variants for mining steeply dipping ore bodies, identifying production and economic disadvantages, as well as their causes. Findings.As a result of the research, the pillar raise performance in the mining system with ore shrinkage has been substantiated. The main parameters of the proposed variants for mining systems with ore shrinkage, intended for expansion-type supports and borehole breaking, have been substantiated. A design has been developed of fastening the material-running raises (MRR) and ventilating raises (VR) on the working and ventilation horizons to ensure their performance in the mining system with ore shrinkage. Originality. For the first time, dependences of dilution and labour productivity on the ore body thickness and the type of ore breaking for blast-hole stoping and borehole breaking for a single and “twinned block” have been obtained. In addition, a certain dependence of the loading and delivery performance on the average fractional composition, as well as on the delivery distance, has been obtained. Practical implications. The research is characterized by scientific innovations created for the first time, which are able to ensure the efficiency and safety of mining operations, while creating the ability to manage the loss of minerals and dilution in the block, as well as reaching their calculated optimal ratio in order to achieve the most cost-effective production rate.

Purpose is to substantiate intensification of dozer dump reclamation in the process of open pit-mining. Methods. Analysis of methods intended to intensify reclamation activities in the context of open-pit mineral extraction under different mining and geological conditions has been applied. Innovative operation schedule of dump reclamation has been developed on the basis of critical analysis and proper analytical research. Findings. Operation schedule to form a dozer dump has been substantiated taking into consideration rock suitability for reclamation making it possible to mitigate impact of mining on the environment. Algorithm to calculate dozer dump parameters has been developed as well as a digital topographic model of selective dump formation. Originality. The developed operation schedule for selective formation of the external dump differs from the available one in the simultaneous layer dumping to intensify surface of its dumped share in the process of open-pit mining. Practical implications. Use of the method of selective surface formation in terms of a dozer dump, taking into consideration overburden suitability for reclamation, helps intensify reclamation of the soils disturbed during field development.

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This article deals with production planning in the context of providing technology at each mining stage with developed and ready-tostoping reserves. In order to address the problem, the ore body is represented by a geological block model. Numerical data is used to represent the attributes of each block, such as mass, density, ore grade, rock type. The mining plan provision with reserve standards on the degree of reconnaissance for production is reduced to the optimization task solution. The main condition for ensuring the planned production productivity of the mine is to provide the minimum necessary developed reserves. In the proposed mathematical model, it is taken into account by one of the objective function’s terminators for solving the set task. As the results of the calculations have shown, such a scheduling ensures approach that there is developed ore’s sufficient amount for at least 6 months at the beginning of each period, which is a clear advantage of the proposed model.

Purpose. An algorithm development for calculating the optimum depth for cyclical-and-continuous method schemes introduction when cleaning-up the deep iron ore quarries.Methods. When developing an algorithm for calculating the optimum depth for cyclical-and-continuous method schemes introduction under the conditions of the Kacharsky mine, abstraction and analytical techniques were used to distinguish the parameters that most significantly influence on the depth value of the cyclical-and-continuous method schemes introduction. The developed algorithm has been applied when constructing a mathematical model based on mining-engineering parameters for cleaning-up the Kacharsky Iron Ore Mine.Findings. An algorithm is presented for calculating the optimum depth to put into operation the railway transport and a conveyor hoister in the cyclical-and-continuous method schemes, taking into account the mining-engineering and economic parameters for cleaning-up the deep quarries in surface mining. It has been substantiated that the transition from a combined automobile-railway to a combined automobile-conveyor-railway mode of transport is economically viable and will expand the limits of the effective use of surface mining of iron ore deposits. It is recommended to restrict the depth of commissioning the railway transport to 149 m, and the conveyor hoister -to 344 m into the cyclical-and-continuous method schemes using automobile-conveyor and automobile-railway modes of transport.Originality. Based on the constructed mathematical model, the dependences have been obtained of the prime costs for transporting the total volume of rocks mined on the depth of the cyclical-and-continuous method schemes introduction under the conditions of the Kacharsky Iron Ore Mine. Practical implications.For the conditions of cleaning-up the Kacharsky Iron Ore Mine, the optimum parameters have been set for the mining-transport scheme of the cyclical-and-continuous method, which ensure the minimum prime costs of the rock mass transportation.