Mining is process of extracting valuable minerals from the earth.

The reason behind the process is the commercial benefit of the miner. Ores that are recovered by mining include metals, limestone, rock salt and potash, coal and oil shale, gravel, and clay. The ore are used to derive nonrenewable resource like natural gas and petroleum. There are various types of pump that are available in market but the most commonly used pumps arepiston pumps and centrifugal pump. Although other mining pumps are also used in mining industry, but the usage depends upon the requirement of the miner. However the piston mining pumps are almost replaced by centrifugal pumps. The primary duty of a mining pump is to remove the groundwater that seeps into the mine work area from surrounding places. The mining pumps that are now backbone of mining industry are:

TYPES OF PUMPS FOR MINING INDUSTRY

SLURRY PUMPS CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS BOREHOLE PUMPS

DIAPHRAGM PUMPS SUBMERSILE PUMPS

SLURRY PUMPS: A slurry pump increases the pressure of liquid and solid particle mixture through rotation force; it is a type of centrifugal pump.

Transportation of corrosive and highly concentrated slurry is undertaken by slurry pump in metal industries likeSteel,Lead,Iron ore,Gold, Tin, Silver, Coal, Titanium, Copper, Mineral sands, and Zinc. Other industries include Electric Utilities, Sand and Gravel, Oil Shale, Molybdenum, Building areas, Tobacco and lastly Agriculture sector (poultry, and dairy manure) CENTRIFUGAL PUMP : Centrifugal pumps are utilized to transport fluids by the converting rotational kinetic energy to the hydrodynamic energy of the fluid flow. Common uses include pumping. water, petroleum and petrochemical, sewage

SUBMERSILE PUMP: A submersible pump is a pump where the whole assembly is submerged in the fluid that is to be pumped away. It pre vents pump cavitation. Pump cavitation occurs due to high elevation difference betweenfluid surface and the pump. Submersible pumps are found in many types of mining industry. Drainage, general industrial pumping, sewage pumping and slurry pumping are all the uses of submersible pumps. Multiple stage submersible pumps are applicable in industrial water extraction, in oil wellsand water wells. Other uses are deep well drilling, mine dewatering, offshore drilling rigs and irrigation systems. BOREHOLE PUMPS: These pumps are also very much used in mining industry for making hole for miners and laying out electrical and water supply lines. DIAPHRAGM PUMPS: Diaphragm pumps are also called as Membrane pump are used to pump a fluid. This is how the pump has become the important part of mining industry.