Which of the following is not considered under unsupported class of underground mineral exploitation method?
A. stope and pillar mining
B. shrinkage stoping
C. square set stope
D. sublevel stoping
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Which one of the following term is not related to opencast mining?
A. Boxcut
B. Highwall
C. Crest
D. Winze
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What is the rate of stone dust loading per meter of shelf length for light type barriers?
A. 10 kg
B. 20 kg
C. 30 kg
D. 40 kg
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Prior to installation of a long wall equipment at face, the face is to be developed by Road headers in
A. retreating long wall mining method
B. advance long wall mining method
C. both advancing and retreating method
D. conventional longwall
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Roof fall accidents are caused due to
A. no support given at the face
B. insufficient support and delay in erection of support
C. maximum concentration of workers is there at the face
D. blasting and misfired shots
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Which of the following belongs to hard rock mining?
A. potash
B. salt
C. trona
D. iron
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When the thickness of immediate roof is more than A m then it becomes stronger and behaves like a main roof? A is given by
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Four benches are being worked by the opencast mining system. Height, width and face angle for each bench are 15 m, 50 m and 70° respectively. The overall slope angle of the benches in degrees is
A. 15.45°
B. 19.25°
C. 32.65°
D. 36.25°
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Hydraulic mining of coal is normally applicable to mining seams, which are
A. thick and steeply inclined and have soft coal
B. thick and flat gradient and have soft coal
C. thin and flat gradient and have soft coal
D. thin and steeply inclined and have soft coal
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Rill stoping method is a form of
A. block caving
B. artificially supported stoping
C. underhand stoping
D. overhand stoping
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The average vertical stress in a coal pillar of a B & P panel is found to be 8 MPa. The depth of the pillar and the average density of overburden rock are 200 m and 2500 kg/m3 respectively. Assuming pillar stress to be the same in all coal pillars of that panel, the extraction ratio of the panel is
A. 0.387
B. 0.513
C. 0.613
D. 0.751
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The Automatic Contrivance shall prevent the descending cage from being landed at pit bottom at a speed exceeding
A. 1.5 m/s
B. 3 m/s
C. 4.5 m/s
D. 6 m/s
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Which of the following characteristics in blasting gallery method is essential to minimize mixing of waste rocks with coal?
A. flat gradient
B. regular seam characteristics
C. friable characteristics
D. less gassy seam
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In order to get better safety, the optimum gradient of a haul road is
A. 1° - 3°
B. 5° - 9°
C. 15° - 19°
D. > 20°
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The maximum number of coal faces in an underground bord and pillar development district is 13. The number of headings in the district is
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The method of joining rope is known as
A. rope stitching
B. rope splicing
C. rope stretching
D. rope vulcanizing
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A longwall panel with a face height of 3.0 m and face length of 150.0 m is worked in 3 shifts per day employing 40 men per shift. The depth of the web of the shearer cutting coal is 0.5 m. The unit weight of the coal is 1.4 tonne/m3 . Two full face cuts are executed per shift. The daily production from the panel in tonne is
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The number of workmen's inspector in a large u/g coal mine
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A tension crack of 5 m depth behind a rock slope crest is completely filled with water. What is the horizontal force exerted on a unit slope length by the water in the tension crack.
A. 122.60 kN
B. 245.00 kN
C. 12.26 MPa
D. 24.50 Nm
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Rack & Pinion is used for
A. large speed reduction
B. to convert rotary motion into a linear motion
C. convert vertical motion to vertical motion in a different angle
D. to reduce and convert linear motion into a rotary motion
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