The conditions of increasing competition in today’s mining industry, deepening of mines and also decreasing ore reserve and quality parameters (grade, calorie, ppm, etc.) compels to reduce unit cost for maximum benefit. In this context, optimization of machinery and equipment in technical and economical sense is required in terms of economic mining. In underground mining, as ore transport operation significantly affects profitability, optimization of the system gains importance technically and economically. In this paper, the authors studied production capacities up to 1,000,000 ton/year and orebody depths up to 1,000 m according to different haulage systems; conventional shaft hoisting, declined mine truck haulage and flexowell vertical belt applications. In model study, unit transport costs of each alternative depending on the production capacity and mine depth have been calculated.
Abstract.Coal produced in open pit mines should be moved to thermic power plants for production of power. Thermic power plants require very large amounts of coal. In transportation process of this coal, both costs and technical parameters should be considered. Common alternative transportation modes in this process are belt conveyors, truck types, suspension rail conveying systems, pipelines and railways. Selection of one of these modes is influenced by transportation distance, inclination of the haulage road, amount of coal reserve, investment costs, production capacity and unit production cost of the open pit mine. In this study, advantages and disadvantages of alternative transportation modes are analysed using Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (F-AHP). The results revealed, belt conveyors and trucks transportation by are superior to others.
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