“…These advantages include: selective mining, improved productivity, ability to work close to the habitat/agricultural fields, environment-friendly, reduced noise emission, reduced fugitive dust emission, total elimination of ground vibration, no drilling and blasting, no fly rocks, no secondary blasting/breaking of boulders, stable, clean surfaces and benches, improved overall Research, Society andDevelopment, v. 11, n. 13, e307111335619, 2022 (CC BY 4.0) | ISSN 2525-3409 | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v11i13.35619 3 availability of the system, reduced operating cost, leading to easier coordination and process planning during planning, dispatching and maintenance; enhanced ROM-quality (Queiroz et al, 2020). Improved exploitation of the deposit, reduced processing after mining required, primary crushing stage can be omitted and gentle loading of trucks due to sized material, low investment costs in comparison to the range of equipment necessary for conventional mining, low operating costs due to less equipment and less personnel, cuts steep and stable surfaces and embankments (better exploitation), precise cutting of designed profiles (slopes, surfaces) and improved safety (Prakash et al, 2013;Silva et al, 2020).…”