Roof Supports Mining

The can is a yieldable secondary roof support made from a confined core of cementitious composite encased in a cylindrical steel canister which resembles a can.

Roof supports mining.

Surface control niosh mining publications have documented the advantages of using roof screen or mesh to prevent ground fall injuries. The structural design of the powered roof supports is respected throughout the mining industry for attention to key fabrication details. Originally introduced in 1993 the strata propsetter support system remains one of strata s top selling support props through out the world. Including timber steel and concrete options.

Our longwall top coal caving ltcc roof supports allow mining of seams up to 10 m 32 8 ft. Roof supports for special applications. Intrinsic roof support an empirically based software package analysis of roof bolt systems arbs has been developed to assist in design of roof bolt systems in coal mines. The can handles mine floor heaving and roof sag better than any other type of support available today.

Following a conventional cut with a shearer to about 3 m 9 8 ft the roof supports move forward and allow the caving coal to fall via controllable caving shields onto a second conveyor mounted gob side. Today this prop is one of eleven different standing support systems strata offers.