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Ore reserve?
Cutoff Grade?
To be a profit
Borehole logging may show area
with occasional high metal values.
surrounded by scattered sections
with lower grades and by barren
rock.
Example of Grade and Ore Relation
Choice of mechanization
To accommodate the new equipment
Considerations factors
a) Machine considerations
b) Mine considerations
c) Efficiency consideration
Machine Considerations
Capacity
The largest possible units
limitations to the choice
Effectively utilization
Different level
One location to another
Mine Considerations
Shape
Thickness or orebody
Nature of contact between orebody and host rock
Dip angle of orebody
Disturbances in occurrence of ore body variation in
dip, strike and thickness
Stability and other physical properties of orebody
Stability and other physical properties of enclosing
country rocks
Distribution of ore body
Mineralogical composition of host rocks
Value of ore
Susceptibility of ore to self ignition, oxidation and
packing
Depth of ore body
Hydro-geological condition of mining
Possible disturbances of ground surface and
enclosing country rocks
Miscellaneous factors