Abstract When highwall mining technology is applied to recover large amounts of residual coal left under the a big open-pit mine, reasonable pillar width required ensure stability web pillars. Using numerical simulations, this paper studied characteristics abutment stress distribution in pillars different slope angles and depths, established relation describing pillar. The relationship between ...

In underground mining, hydraulic backfill materials, such as waste tailings, river sand, and cement, are often used to fill underground mined stopes. In cut-and-fill mining methods with blasthole stoping and delayed backfill, after extraction of adjacent pillars that contain economic minerals, the backfill is often subject to exposure of free standing on at least one side. A key concern for min...