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Surface Mining

Surface Mining Services

Whatever your business is handling – from coal to copper ore, from iron ore to overburden – to be successful in the fields of surface mining you need a strong partner. Scow Miner offers you experience and expertise in delivering services for surface mining. We ensure that even the most challenging requirements are fulfilled. Scow Miner develop and implement individually tailored solutions that work with highest reliability. For optimal productivity of your equipment – both today as well as tomorrow – each of our solutions is based on robust technology engineering and testing for mining specific applications.
Surface mining is often the preference for mining companies. This is because removing the terrain surface, or overburden, to access the mineral beneath is often more cost-effective than gouging tunnels and subterranean shafts to access minerals underground. This method is often considered safer, as well, and doesn’t require extensive electricity rigging and water piping.

Scow Miner is offering a wide portfolio of products and systems in surface mining.

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Strip Mining

The process involves stripping the surface away from the mineral that’s being excavated (usually coal). Soil, rock, and vegetation over the mineral seam is removed with huge machines, including bucket-wheel excavators.

This type of mining makes sense when the mineral is near the surface. If the ore is too far under the surface, the process of strip mining becomes impractical and needlessly damaging to the terrain.

Open-Pit Mining

The process has been around for centuries, with ancient cultures like the Greeks, Romans, and Persians mining for granite, marble and even salt. These pit mines continue to be enlarged until there is no more ore to mine or the overburden becomes too heavy.

These mines usually produce a vast amount of ore without the costly process of removing overburden — the ore is often in a large area and close to the surface. However, These type of mines are both dangerous to work in, and permanently alter the surrounding ecosystem.

Specialised Surface Mining Techniques

Mountaintop Removal

The process is best suited for retrieving mass amounts of minerals, usually coal, from mountain peaks. The process involves blasting the overburden with explosives above the mineral seam to be mined. This type of mining is used when the ore to be retrieved is 400 feet or deeper.

Dredging

The process is mostly associated with gold mining. Floating dredges move up a water table. A scoop lifts material up on a conveyor belt, and the mineral is removed on board the barge. The unwanted material is then dropped back into the water table using another conveyor belt.

Highwall Mining

The process relies on machinery to collect ores from a “highwall”, or an unmined wall with overburden and exposed minerals and ores. It enable to retrieve ore from a wall that would otherwise be too expensive to clear of overburden in order to reach the ore at the edges of pit mines.

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