GROUNDING THE technology WITH MOBILE equipment MINING THE UrupSKY chalcopyrite deposit lower horizons
The article presents the results of researches aimed at improving the development of the Urupsky chalcopyrite deposit. The variants for the development of systems based on the employment of traditional and modern self-propelled equipment are worked out. In terms of their technical and economic comparison it is determined that the developed technologies employing mobile equipment can significantly improve the deposit mining basic performance in comparison with conventional technology. Mobility and adaptability permit to put mining units in operation gradually, to produce the filling of completed chambers with waste rock from tunneling and clearing activities, as a result to provide for mining the reserves of the Urupsky underground mine lower horizons without production capacity elimination during the transition period.