Bolting Procedures in Outokumpu's Kemi Mine

摘要

The working environment for ground support installation in mines has improved a lot during the last 20-30 years, with more and more mechanized installations of the different ground support elements such as bolts, cable bolts and screen. However ground support installation productivity has not followed the same development curve. In fact, its productivity has more or less remained constant and in some cases has even fallen if, as an example, comparisons are made between the manual and mechanized installations of bolts. One reason for this is that modern mechanised bolt rigs are very complex, capable to perform many tasks. To be able to fully utilize this equipment's capability a different level of maintenance and product support is required. This paper describes the bolting process in Outokumpu's Kemi mine that has a very interesting procedure for bolt installation and has also paid an unsurpassed attention to the maintenance procedures to improve productivity.