The ore of Hanaoka Mine is complex one, which is typical of so called “Black Ore”. The products are copper, pyrite, lead, zinc, gypsum, barite. The geological features control in mining methods are:
1. The ore bodies lie under river level.
2. The alluvium contains water bearing gravel strata, acting like “quick rand”,
3. The ore bodies distributed in an area of several -kilometers are apparently in massive state and their diameters ranging from several tens to handreds meters and they are surrounded byclayish soap stone, soft green tuff, or cut acrossed by clayish crack and the ores are often powdery.
Accordingly, when the ore bodies have tendency to cave, so the stopes are always timbered. However, no timbering of small scale is needed _ in stoping in comparatively hard Cu-bearing pyrite or gypsum ore bodies.
Owing to the above mentioned conditions, the following mining methods had to be adopted:
1. Open-Cut mining.
2. Crosscut caving method for soft Cu-ore bodies,
3. Short-Wall top slicing method for Cu-ore bodies,
4. Under Cut Block Caving method for low grade pyrite ore bodies,
5. Underhand and Overhand Square-Set stoping with filling for high grade Cu-ore bodies,
6. Cut-and-fill stoping for pyrite ore bodies.
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