Kuzbass mineral raw material base available for applying the method of robot-based roof coal release

Abstract

Coal reserves suitable, in prospect, for underground mining by means of robot-based system of roof coal release are situated in Bachatskey, Yerunakovskey, Kemerovskey, Leninskey, Prokopyevsk-Kiselyevskey and Tom’-Usinskey geological-economic regions of Kuzbass, in the coal seams with the thickness of more than 5 meters and the depth of 600 meters and total about 3 billion tons.