AU2021355609A1 - Method for mining by filling and caving - Google Patents

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AU2021355609A1
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Guohui GONG
Wensheng Liu
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Anlin SHAO
Zhiyu Xie
Liansheng XU
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    • EFIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
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    • E21CMINING OR QUARRYING
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    • E21DSHAFTS; TUNNELS; GALLERIES; LARGE UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS
    • E21D11/00Lining tunnels, galleries or other underground cavities, e.g. large underground chambers; Linings therefor; Making such linings in situ, e.g. by assembling
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    • E21D11/00Lining tunnels, galleries or other underground cavities, e.g. large underground chambers; Linings therefor; Making such linings in situ, e.g. by assembling
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    • E21D11/18Arch members ; Network made of arch members ; Ring elements; Polygon elements; Polygon elements inside arches
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    • E21EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21FSAFETY DEVICES, TRANSPORT, FILLING-UP, RESCUE, VENTILATION, OR DRAINING IN OR OF MINES OR TUNNELS
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    • E21EARTH DRILLING; MINING
    • E21FSAFETY DEVICES, TRANSPORT, FILLING-UP, RESCUE, VENTILATION, OR DRAINING IN OR OF MINES OR TUNNELS
    • E21F15/00Methods or devices for placing filling-up materials in underground workings
    • E21F15/005Methods or devices for placing filling-up materials in underground workings characterised by the kind or composition of the backfilling material

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The present invention discloses a method for mining by filling and caving, overcoming the problems of serious ore loss and dilution, surface subsidence existing in the non-pillar sublevel caving method, and a new problem of ore loss and dilution caused by 5 the dry gravels and tailings filled with on the top. The overlying rocks formed by the non-pillar sublevel caving method are grouted to form a layer of grouted overlying rocks the thickness of which is equal to the height of two sublevels formed by the non-pillar sublevel caving method. Ore mining is carried out by non-pillar sublevel caving method under the grouted overlying rocks, so that the grouted overlying rocks completely wrap the 10 new caving ores. In the process of ore drawing, it not only prevents the waste rocks from the front of the drawing ores from mixing into them, but also prevents the gravels and tailings filled with on the top from passing through the new caving ores to mix into the drawing ores. And arched suspension beams are constructed on the roof of the goaf, and the goaf is intensively filled from the top through a filling blind ore pass. The method has the 15 advantages such as simple mining process, high mining intensity, high efficiency, high mechanization, safety, low mining costs, non-surface subsidence, and low ore loss and dilution, and is applicable to all underground mining of metal ores.

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METHOD FOR MINING BY FILLING AND CAVING FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of filling mining for underground
mines, relating to a method for mining by filling and caving.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
An underground mining method includes three essential process steps of mining
preparation, cutting and mining. According to the maintenance way of earth pressure, the
underground mining methods include three categories of open stope mining method, filling
mining method and caving mining method.
Under the current requirements of environmental protection, all the mines are
recommended to adopt the filling method. The traditional open stope mining method, for
example, requires subsequent filling to prevent surface subsidence. However, the filling
method is mining under a large exposed area with poor safety and complicated filling
processes, which requires processes such as water filtration, cementation and maintenance,
having disadvantages of low production capacity as well as high costs.
As a representative of the caving method, non-pillar sublevel caving method has the
advantages such as simple process structure, high mining intensity, high efficiency, high
mechanization, safety, and low mining costs, which is popularized around the world, but
still has two critical defects of serious ore loss and dilution and surface subsidence.
Is there a better mining method having safety, low cost and high production efficiency,
as well as without surface subsidence to be ascribed?
If the problems of serious ore loss and dilution and surface subsidence existing in the
non-pillar sublevel caving method were solved, the above requirements will basically be
met.
Firstly, the problem of serious ore loss and dilution existing in the non-pillar sublevel
caving method is analyzed.
In the standard non-pillar sublevel caving method, the ore body is divided into several
stages, which are then divided into several sublevels by means of mining roadways to mine
sublevel by sublevel from top to bottom. The operations such as drilling, caving and ore
removal in sublevel are all carried out in the mining roadway, mining from the tail end to the start of the mining roadway in a backward manner Each mining operation covers a small a small caving space of generally 1.5m-2m.
Drawing ore of the caving ores under the overburden stratum, the ores will be mixed
with the rocks during ore drawing due to directly contact ores with rocks, resulting in
serious ore loss and dilution during ore drawing. The problem of serious ore loss and
dilution during ore drawing under the overburden stratum has not been well solved, which
is a major problem that plagues the mining industry.
Drawing ore under the overburden stratum may be mixed with waste overburden
rocks from the front, top and sides of the ores. A lot of practices show that the most waste
overburden rocks are mixed from the front of the ores. The ore loss and dilution will be
greatly reduced as long as the waste rocks from the front can be prevented from mixing
with the ores. If slurries are grouted into the overlying rocks to build the grouted
overburden stratum, the ore drawing under the grouted overburden stratum can effectively
prevent the waste rocks on the front from mixing with the ores, thereby solving the
problem of the serious ore loss and dilution during ore drawing existing in the non-pillar
sublevel caving method.
For mines built by the non-pillar sublevel caving method, due to very thick overlying
rocks, grouting the whole overlying rocks requires a lot costs. Therefore, the overlying
rocks of the lower sublevel are grouted from the upper sublevel only during the mining
process. According to the safety requirements of the non-pillar sublevel caving method, the
mining at the upper sublevel must precede that at the lower sublevel by 20m, or mining
sublevel-by-sublevel. The grouting position has been covered by the overlying rocks to
form an area closed by the overlying rocks, and person cannot enter the grouting position.
In non-pillar sublevel caving method each mining covers a small caving space, the position
of grouting required to be changed along with the mining of each caving space. Therefore,
grouting overlying rocks of the non-pillar sublevel caving method has a problem of area
closed by the overlying rocks, long distances, and position changing, which is a difficult
problem.
Secondly, the problem of surface subsidence existing in the non-pillar sublevel caving
method is analyzed.
For the non-pillar sublevel caving method, a goaf will be formed above the overburden stratum along with ore drawing. With the increase of mining scope and mining depth, the area of the goaf also gradually grows. When the roof of the goaf exceeds the allowable exposed area, the rocks surrounding the roof of the goaf are destructed and collapse, and the deformation and destruction of the rocks surrounding the roof continues growing upwards until reaching to the surface, resulting in surface subsidence.
The most effective way to solve the problem of surface subsidence is to fill the goaf,
that is, the goaf isfilled from the top with backfill such as waste rocks and mill tailings.
However, filling the goaf has a problem that the backfill cannot be contacted with the roof
of the goaf. As the goaf cannot be fully filled, the roof will continue to deform and collapse
until the surface is destructed. Therefore, how to fully fillthe goaf to contact the roof is a
key to solving the problem of surface subsidence in the non-pillar sublevel caving method.
In addition, it brings some new problems as the goaf is filled from the top with waste
rocks and mill tailings to bear earth pressure. As the ore body at the lower part is mined by
non-pillar sublevel caving method, the dry waste rocks and mill tailings filled with from the
top of the goaf are easily mixed into the drawing ores during ore drawing, particularly the
mill tailings. The mill tailings' particulates are very fine, so that a large amount of mill
tailings will pass through the new caving ores to mix into the drawing ores, deteriorating
the ore drawing effect.
In summary, in order to solve the problems of serious ore loss and dilution and surface
subsidence existing in the non-pillar sublevel caving method, methods of grouting
overlying rocks and filling the goaf from the top through a filling well can be adopted
respectively. However, it is necessary to solve problems caused by grouting such as the
area closed by the overlying rocks, long distances, and position changing, and problem of
roof-contact of the goaf, and problem of serious ore loss and dilution caused by the gravels
and tailings filled with from the top of the goaf mixed into the drawing ores.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
To solve the problems existing in the above-mentioned caving mining method and
filling mining method, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method for
mining by filling and caving to disclose a newfilling mining method having characteristics
such as less ore loss and dilution, low costs, safety, high efficiency and non-surface
subsidence.
The object of the present invention includes the following technical solutions:
A method for mining by filling and caving includes mining ore by a non-pillar
sublevel caving under a grouted overlying rocks, constructing arched suspension beams on
the roof of a goaf, and intensively filling the goaf from the top through a filling blind ore
pass, wherein the method includes the following steps:
SI: Constructing the arched suspension beams on the roof of the goaf and arranging a
filling system
The roof of the goaf formed by mining ore through the non-pillar sublevel caving
method is burst into several arched suspension beams using a blasting method, wherein the
arched suspension beams is composed of arches and a vertical beams. Several filling blind
ore passes connected to the goaf are arranged at a height position above 50m over the
centers of the arches of all the arched suspension beams of the roof of the goaf, wherein
each filling blind ore pass is connected to the ground through a filling blind ore pass
connecting channel and a ground filling well. And a filling system is built on the ground,
wherein the filling system includes a filling material bin, a filling material mixing plant,
and a filling material conveying line which conveys a filling material source to the filling
blind ore pass via the filling material bin, the filling material mixing plant, the ground
filling well and the filling blind ore pass connecting channel;
S2: Pre-burying grouting pipes
Deep ditches are excavated along full length at both sides of the bottom of the
uppermost sublevel mining roadway of the non-pillar sublevel caving method for mining
ore and extended to the uppermost sublevel connecting channel. A grouting pipe, formed by
sleeving an inner pipe with an outer pipe, is buried into each deep ditch. The grouting pipe
is extended out of the ground at the uppermost sublevel connecting channel, wherein the
inner pipe of the grouting pipe is connected to grouting equipment by means of joint pipes.
The deep ditch is filled with the slag from working face and the surface is then cemented
and sealed with concrete, such that the pre-burying processes of the grouting pipes of all
the uppermost sublevel mining roadways are completed after the concrete dry completely;
The uppermost sublevel and the second sublevel are then mined through the
traditional non-pillar sublevel caving method, when a fan-shaped medium-deep hole is
arranged in the second sublevel mining roadway, the distance between the bottom of the fan-shaped medium-deep hole and the grouting pipe pre-buried at the uppermost sublevel is greater than 0.5m;
S3: Grouting overlying rocks
When mining is carried out to the third sublevel mining roadway, a retreating mining
is carried out from the tail end to the entry end of the third sublevel mining roadway. After
ore drawing for mining of one caving space is completed, the overlying rocks fall to the
end of the working face and are grouted at the end of the working face of the current third
sublevel mining roadway by the grouting equipment through the grouting pipe at the
uppermost sublevel connecting channel until the slurry flows out of the working face, and
then the grouting pipe is washed by injecting water for 1 to 2 minutes. The inner pipe of the
grouting pipe at the grouting equipment is pulled out by a length of one caving space and
the grouting outlet is adjusted to a grouting position for the next caving space, and then the
next caving space is mined. Grouting is carried out again and mining until the current third
sublevel mining roadway is completely mined, such that the overlying rocks at the current
third sublevel mining roadway are grouted completely. The mining and grouting overlaying
rocks at all the third sublevel mining roadways are completed in the same way.
S4: Filling the gob
The goaf is filled with the gravel and tailings backfill through the filling blind ore
pass;
S5: Mining other sublevels and filling new goafs in time
A fourth sublevel and the lower sublevels are mined by the traditional non-pillar
sublevel caving method. In the case that the ore body is mined, the overlying rocks and the
gravel and tailings backfill move downward and a new goaf appears on an upper part. The
new goaf is filled in time to keep it stuffed by repeating steps 4 and 5.
Preferably, bursting the the roof of the goaf formed by ores mining by the non-pillar
sublevel caving into several arched suspension beams using a blasting method is to
excavate a drilling roadway along the strike of the ore body in the surrounding rock on the
goaf side, wherein the horizontal distance between the drilling roadway and the goaf side is
10 to 20 m, and the bottom of the drilling roadway is at the same height as the bottom of
the roof of the goaf. Beam-shaped blastholes are arranged straight opposite to the center
position of arch of each arched suspension beam to be burst in the drilling roadway, so that the roof forms the arched suspension beam structure having suspension beams by blasting method.
Preferably, the arched suspension beams are composed of the arches and the vertical
beams. The area of the arch of each arched suspension beam is S'=KS, the length L of the
arch is equal to the thickness of the ore body, a span is W=S'/L, and the total height from
the top of the arch to the bottom of the vertical beam is H= Wtana/2+b, the width d of the
vertical beam is 4 to 8 m, the length thereof is equal to the thickness of the ore body, and b
is the distance between the bottom of the arch and the bottom of the vertical beam, usually
ranging from 1 to 3m;
wherein, S' represents the area of the arch of each arched suspension beam, S
represents an allowable exposed area ensuring the stability of the roof, K represents the
area coefficient ranging from 0.3 to 0.9, a represents a natural repose angle of the gravel
and tailings backfill that filled on the top.
Preferably, the arch of the arched suspension beam has a cross-sectional shape such as
circular arc, three-centered arch or triangular arch.
Preferably, the diameters of the filling blind ore pass and the ground filling well range
from 2 to 4 m.
Preferably, the depth of the deep ditch ranges from 30 to 50 cm and the width of the
deep ditch is larger than the diameter of the outer pipe of the grouting pipe.
Preferably, the outer pipe of the grouting pipe is made of PPR pipe material having a
diameter ranging from 2 to 2.5 inches. And 2 to 4 rows of grouting holes having a diameter
of 0.5 to 1 cm are arranged along full length on the lower part and sides of the outer pipe,
and the outer pipe is connected with each other by means of hot melt. The inner pipe is a
continuous jointless rubber tube having a diameter of 3/4 or 1 inch. The inner pipe is
inserted into the outer pipe, both having the same length.
Preferably, the grouting equipment employs a water pump or a grouting machine.
Preferably, the grouting material used for grouting is solid sodium silicate which is
dissolved in water to prepare a grouting solution before grouting, wherein the mass ratio of
the solid sodium silicate to water is 1:(5-20), and the volume ratio of once grouting amount
to the overlying rocks to be grouted is 1: (5-20).
Preferably, filling the with the gravel and tailings backfill through the filling blind ore pass in the step 4, wherein the lumpiness of the gravels is less than 0.5 m, and the mass ratio of the gravels to the tailings is 1: (0-3).
The new high-efficiency method for mining by filling and caving provided in the
present invention has the advantages such as simple mining process structure, high mining
intensity, high efficiency, high mechanization, safety, low mining costs, non-surface
subsidence and low ore loss and dilution, and is applicable to all underground mining of
metal ores.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG.1 is a schematic diagram of constructing the arched suspension beam structure on
the roof of the goaf and the filling system arrangement.
FIG.2 is an effect diagram of bursting the roof of the goaf into the arched suspension
beam structure.
FIG. 3 is an effect diagram of grouting the overlying rocks when mining the third
sublevel.
FIG.4 is an effect diagram of intensively filling the goaf after grouting the overlying
rocks.
FIG.5 is a schematic diagram of the grouting pipe arrangement.
FIG.6 is a schematic diagram of arrangement of the deep ditch and the grouting pipes
in the mining roadway.
FIG.7 is a schematic diagram of the grouting equipment arranged in the uppermost
sublevel connecting channel.
FIG.8 is a horizontal cross-sectional schematic diagram of arrangement of the grouting
pipes.
FIG.9 is a schematic diagram showing the combination of the inner pipe and the outer
pipe, and the grouting holes on grouting pipe.
FIG.10 is a schematic diagram of constructing the arched suspension beam structure
on the roof by blasting method.
FIG.11 is a schematic diagram of the dimension of the arched suspension beam
structure on the roof.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS
The embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
As shown in FIGs.1 and 2, the method for mining by filling and caving provided in
the present invention includes mining ore by a non-pillar sublevel caving under the grouted
overlying rocks 14, constructing arched suspension beams on the roof of the goaf, and
intensively filling the goaf from the top through the filling blind ore passes, wherein the
method includes the following steps:
SI: Constructing the arched suspension beams on the roof of the goaf and arranging
the filling system.
The roof 1 of the goaf 8 formed by mining ore through the non-pillar sublevel caving
method is burst into several arched suspension beams using a blasting method, wherein the
arched suspension beams are composed of the arches 3 and the vertical beams 2. Several
filling blind ore passes 4 connected to the goaf 8 are arranged at the height position above
50 m over the centers of the arches 3 of all the arched suspension beams of the roof of the
goaf 8, wherein each filling blind ore pass 4 is connected to the ground 7 through the filling
blind ore pass connecting channel 5 and the ground filling well 6. And a filling system is
built on the ground 7, wherein the filling system includes a filling material bin, a filling
material mixing plant, and a filling material conveying line which conveys the filling
material source to the filling blind ore passes 4 via the filling material bin, the filling
material mixing plant, the ground filling well 6 and the filling blind ore pass connecting
channel5.
As shown in FIGs. 1 and 10, said bursting the roof 1 of the goaf 8 formed by ore
mining through a non-pillar sublevel caving method into several arched suspension beam
structures using a blasting method, is to excavate the drilling roadway 16 along the strike of
the ore body in the surrounding rock on the side of the goaf 8, wherein the horizontal
distance between the drilling roadway 16 and the side of the goaf 8 is 10 to 20 m, and the
bottom of the drilling roadway 16 is at the same height as the bottom of the roof 1 of the
goaf 8. The beam-shaped blastholes 17 are arranged straight opposite to the center positions
of the arches 3 of each arched suspension beams to be burst in the drilling roadway 16, and
the rocks inside the arched suspension beams are burst using the blasting method, so that
the roof forms an arched suspension beam having suspension beams.
S2: Pre-burying grouting pipes.
As shown in FIGs.3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, the deep ditches 12 are excavated along full
length on both sides of the bottom of each uppermost sublevel mining roadway 10 of the
non-pillar sublevel caving for mining ore and extended to the uppermost sublevel
connecting channel 18. The grouting pipe 13, formed by sleeving an inner pipe 21 with an
outer pipe 20, is buried into each deep ditch 12. The outer pipe 20 of the grouting pipe 13 is
made of PPR pipe material having a diameter ranging from 2 to 2.5 inches. And 2 to 4 rows
of grouting holes 22 having a diameter of 0.5 to 1 cm are arranged along full length at the
lower part and sides of the outer pipe 20, wherein the outer pipe 20 is connected with each
other by means of hot melt. The inner pipe 21 is a continuous jointless rubber tube having a
diameter of 3/4 or 1 inch. The inner pipe 21 is inserted into the outer pipe 20, both having
the same length. Employing the continuous rubber tube for the inner pipe 21 is to facilitate
to smoothly extract the inner pipe 21 from the outer pipe 20 when adjusting a grouting
outlet.
The grouting pipe 13 is extended out of the ground at the uppermost sublevel
connecting roadway 18, wherein the inner pipe 21 of the grouting pipe 13 is connected to
the grouting equipment 19 by joint pipes. The deep ditch 12 is filled with the slag from the
working face and the surface is then cemented and sealed with concrete, such that the
pre-burying processes of the grouting pipes 13 of all the uppermost sublevel mining
roadways 10 are completed after the concrete dry completely.
The uppermost sublevel and the second sublevel are then mined through the
traditional non-pillar sublevel caving method. As shown in FIG. 5, when the fan-shaped
medium-deep hole 25 is arranged in the second sublevel mining roadway 23, the distance
between the bottom of the fan-shaped medium-deep hole 25 and the grouting pipe 13
pre-buried at the uppermost sublevel is greater than 0.5m, preventing the pre-buried
grouting pipe 13 from being blown up.
As shown in FIGs.1, 2 and 11, the arched suspension beams are composed of the
arches 3 and the vertical beams 2. The area of the arch 3 of each arched suspension beam is
S'=KS, the length L of the arch 3 is equal to the thickness of the ore body, the span is
W=S'/L, and the total height from the top of the arch 3 to the bottom of the vertical beam 2
is H= Wtana /2+b, the width d of the vertical beam 2 is 4 to 8 m, and the length thereof is
equal to the thickness of the ore body, and b is the distance between the bottom of the arch
3 and the bottom of the vertical beam 2, usually ranging from 1 to 3 m;
wherein, S' represents the area of the arch 3 of each arched suspension beam, S
represents the allowable exposed area ensuring the stability of the roof, K represents the
area coefficient ranging from 0.3 to 0.9, a represents the natural repose angle of the gravel
and tailings backfill that filled on the top.
The arch 3 of the arched suspension beam has a cross-sectional shape such as circular
arc, three-centered arch or triangular arch, or other shapes required according to the actual
engineering.
The diameters of the filling blind ore pass 4 and the surface filling well 6 range from 2
to 4 m.
As shown in FIG. 6, the depth of the deep ditch 12 ranges from 30 to 50 cm and the
width larger than the diameter of the outer pipe 20 of the grouting pipe 13, which enable to
smoothly bury the grouting pipe 13.
S3: Grouting overlying rocks.
As shown in FIG. 3, when mining is carried out to the third sublevel mining roadway
15, a retreating mining is carried out from the tail end to the entry end of the third sublevel
mining roadway 15. After ore drawing for mining of one caving space is completed, the
overlying rocks 9 fall to the end of the working face and is grouted at the end of the
working face of the current third sublevel mining roadway 15 by the grouting equipment 19
through the grouting 13 at the uppermost sublevel connecting roadway 18 until the slurry
flows out of the working face, and then the grouting pipe 13 is washed by injecting water
for 1 to 2 minutes. The inner pipe 21 of the grouting pipe 13 at the grouting equipment 19
is pulled out by a length of one caving space and the grouting outlet is adjusted to the
grouting position for the next caving space, and then the next caving space is mined.
Grouting is carried out again and mining until the current third sublevel mining roadway 15
is completely mined, such that the overlying rocks at the current third sublevel mining
roadway are grouted completely. The mining and grouting overlaying rocks at all the third
sublevel mining roadways are completed in the same way. The pre-buried grouting pipe 13
at the uppermost sublevel is used to grout the third sublevel instead of the second sublevel
so as to increase the grouting thickness of the overlying rocks, so that the thickness of the
grouted overlying rocks reach the height of two sublevels formed by the non-pillar sublevel caving method. The grouting equipment 19 employs a water pump or a grouting machine. The grouting material used for grouting is solid sodium silicate which is dissolved in water to prepare a grouting solution before grouting, wherein the mass ratio of solid sodium silicate to water is 1 : (5-20), and the volume ratio of once grouting amount to the overlying rocks to be grouted is 1 : (5-20). S4: Filling the goaf. The goaf 8 is filled with the gravel and tailings backfill 11 through the filling blind ore pass 4, the lumpiness of the gravels is less than 0.5 m, and the mass ratio of the gravels to the tailings is 1 : (0-3). S5: Mining ores at the other sublevels and filling new goafs in time. The fourth sublevel and the lower sublevels are mined by the traditional non-pillar sublevel caving method. However, the overlying rocks are the grouted overlying rocks, and the thickness of the grouted overlying rocks must reach the height of two sublevels formed by the non-pillar sublevel caving method, so that the grouted overlying rocks completely wrap the new caving ores. In the process of ore drawing, it not only prevents the waste rocks from the front of the drawing ores from mixing into them, but more importantly prevents the gravels and tailings filled with on the top from passing through the new caving ores to mix into the drawing ores. In the case that the ore body is mined, the overlying rocks and the gravel and tailings backfill 11 move downward and a new goaf appears on an upper part. The new goaf is filled in time to keep it stuffed by repeating steps 4 and 5, belonging to the dynamic process for the goaf, as shown in FIG.4, wherein 24 indicates the fourth sublevel mining roadway.

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What is claimed is:
1. A method for mining by filling and caving, comprising mining ore by a non-pillar
sublevel caving method under a grouted overlying rocks, constructing arched suspension
beams on the roof of a goaf, and intensively filling the goaf from a top through a filling
blind ore pass, wherein the method comprises the following steps of:
Si: constructing the arched suspension beams on the roof of the goaf and arranging a
filling system
using a blasting method to burst the roof of the goaf formed by mining ore through the
non-pillar sublevel caving method into several arched suspension beams composed of
arches and vertical beams; arranging, at a height position above 50 m over the centers of
the arches of all arched suspension beams of the roof of the goaf, several filling blind ore
passes connected to the arches, wherein each filling blind ore pass is connected to the
ground through a filling blind ore pass connecting channel and a ground filling well; and
building a filling system on the ground, wherein the filling system comprises a filling
material bin, a filling material mixing plant, and a filling material conveying line which
conveys a filling material source to the filling blind ore pass via the filling material bin, the
filling material mixing plant, the ground filling well and the filling blind ore pass
connecting channel;
S2: pre-burying grouting pipes
excavating deep ditches along full length at both sides of a bottom of each uppermost
sublevel mining roadway of the non-pillar sublevel caving method for mining ore and
extending them to an uppermost sublevel connecting channel, and burying a grouting pipe
into each deep ditch, wherein the grouting pipe is formed by sleeving an inner pipe with an
outer pipe; enabling the grouting pipe to extend out of the ground at the uppermost sublevel
connecting channel, connecting the inner pipe of the grouting pipe to a grouting equipment
by means of joint pipes, filling the deep ditch with slag from working face and then
cementing and sealing a surface with concrete, such that the pre-burying processes of the
grouting pipes of all the uppermost sublevel mining roadways are completed after the
concrete dry completely;
and then mining an uppermost sublevel and a second sublevel through the traditional
non-pillar sublevel caving method, wherein when a fan-shaped medium-deep hole is arranged in a second sublevel mining roadway, a distance between a bottom of the fan-shaped medium-deep hole and the grouting pipe pre-buried at the uppermost sublevel is greater than 0.5m; S3: grouting overlying rocks when carrying out mining to a third sublevel mining roadway, carrying out retreating mining from a tail end to an entry end of the third sublevel mining roadway; after completing ore drawing for mining of one caving space, the overlying rocks falling to an end of the working face, grouting the overlying rocks at the end of the working face of the current third sublevel mining roadway by the grouting equipment through the grouting pipe at the uppermost sublevel connecting channel until slurry flowing out of the working face, and then washing the grouting pipe by injecting water for 1 to 2 minutes; pulling out the inner pipe of the grouting pipe at the grouting equipment by a length of one caving space and adjusting a grouting outlet to a grouting position for a next caving space, and then mining the next caving space, repeating grouting and mining until completing mining the current third sublevel mining roadway, such that completely grouting the overlying rocks at the current third sublevel mining roadway, and completing mining and grouting overlaying rocks at all the third sublevel mining roadways in the same way; S4: filling the goaf filling the goaf with a gravel and tailings backfill through the filling blind ore pass; and S5: mining ores at other sublevels and filling new goafs in time mining a fourth sublevel and lower sublevels by the traditional non-pillar sublevel caving method, the overlying rocks and the gravel and tailings backfill moving downward in case that the ore body being mined, and a new goaf appearing on an upper part, filling the new goaf in time to keep the it stuffed by repeating steps 4 and 5.
2. The method for mining by filling and caving according to claim 1, wherein the bursting the roof of the goaf formed by mining ores by the non-pillar sublevel caving into several arched suspension beams using a blasting method, is to excavate a drilling roadway along a strike of the ore body in the surrounding rock on a goaf side, wherein a horizontal distance between the drilling roadway and the goaf side is 10 to 20m, and a bottom of the drilling roadway is at the same height as a bottom of the roof of the goaf; beam-shaped blastholes are arranged straight opposite to a center position of arch of each arched suspension beam to be burst in the drilling roadway, so that the roof forms the arched suspension beam structure having suspension beams by blasting method.
3. The method for mining by filling and caving according to claim 1, wherein the
arched suspension beams are composed of the arches and the vertical beams, an area of the
arch of each arched suspension beam is S'=KS, a length L of the arch is equal to a thickness
of the ore body, a span is W=S'/L, and a total height from a top of the arch to a bottom of
the vertical beam is H= Wtana/2+b, a width d of the vertical beam is 4 to 8m and a length
thereof is equal to the thickness of the ore body; b is a distance between a bottom of the
arch and the bottom of the vertical beam and ranges from 1 to 3m,
wherein S' represents the area of the arch of each arched suspension beam, S
represents an allowable exposed area ensuring the stability of the roof, K represents an area
coefficient ranging from 0.3 to 0.9, a represents a natural repose angle of the gravel and
tailings backfill filled on the top.
4. The method for mining by filling and caving according to claim 1, wherein the arch
of the arched suspension beam has a cross-sectional shape of circular arc, a three-centered
arch or a triangular arch.
5. The method for mining by filling and caving according to claim 1, wherein
diameters of the filling blind ore pass and the ground filling well range from 2 to 4 m.
6. The method for mining by filling and caving according to claim 1, wherein a depth
of the deep ditch ranges from 30 to 50 cm and a width of the deep ditch is larger than a
diameter of the outer pipe of the grouting pipe.
7. The method for mining by filling and caving according to claim 1, wherein the
outer pipe of the grouting pipe is made of PPR pipe material having a diameter ranging
from 2 to 2.5 inches, wherein 2 to 4 rows of grouting holes having a diameter of 0.5 to lcm
are arranged along full length on the lower part and sides of the outer pipe, and the outer
pipe is connected with each other by hot melt; the inner pipe is a continuous jointless
rubber tube having a diameter of 3/4 or 1 inch; the inner pipe is inserted into the outer pipe,
both having the same length.
8. The method for mining by filling and caving according to claim 1, wherein the
grouting equipment employs a water pump or a grouting machine.
9. The method for mining by filling and caving according to claim 1, wherein the
grouting material used for grouting is solid sodium silicate which is dissolved in water to
prepare a grouting solution before grouting, wherein a mass ratio of the solid sodium
silicate to water is 1:(5-20), and a volume ratio of once grouting amount to the overlying
rock to be grouted is 1: (5-20).
10. The method for mining by filling and caving according to claim 1, wherein filling
the goaf with gravel and tailings backfill through the filling blind ore pass in the step S4, a
lumpiness of the gravels is less than 0.5 m, and a mass ratio of the gravels to the tailings is
1: (0-3).
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