Method of removing a mineable product from an underground seam

Details Method of removing a mineable product from an underground seam Method of removing a mineable product from an underground seam

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E21C 41/16 (2006.01) E21B 43/29 (2006.01) E21B 43/30 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2076239

A method of removing a mineable product, such as coal, from an underground seam of mineable product, such as a coal seam includes the steps of drilling a vertical hole from the earth's surface through the seam of mineable product, installing in the recovery hole a vertical auger and a pipe extending from the auger to the earth's surface, drilling a plurality of closely spaced apart injection holes from the earth's surface through the seam of mineable product, the injection holes being drilled in a pattern extending from the recovery hole, inserting an explosive in the seam of mineable product where penetrated by each of the injection holes, sequentially igniting the explosive in each of the injection holes to blast fractured mineable material from the seam, injecting water sequentially in the injection holes to move fractured mineable material toward the recovery hole and operating the auger to raise to the earth's surface the fractured mineable product that has been blasted from the seam.

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