A NOVEL CLEAN MINING TECHNOLOGY INVOLVING THE UNDERGROUND DISPOSAL OF WASTE ROCK IN COAL MINES

Coal enterprises are continually working to develop clean mining technology in order to maintain sustainable development, especially under the background of structural reform of China's coal industry supply side. Within this field, leaving waste rock underground in coal mines is a major area of interest for clean mining of coal resources. In order to address the root cause of problems with waste rock treatment and produce an environmentally friendly coal mining operation, this study begins from the mining technical conditions of Gaozhuang Coal Mine, analyzes the main source of underground waste rock, and puts forward the methods of "filling underground abandoned zone" and "acting as main aggregate of concrete" based on different output locations and subsequent functions of the waste rock. A centralized sorting system of waste rock has been established, which has effectively eased the mine hoisting capacity limitations. On this basis, through utilizing waste rock as the main aggregate of concrete, a novel technology of gob-side entry driving with preset packwall has been developed. This novel technology improves the recycling rate of coal resources, solves the problem of waste rock disposal, makes clean mining possible, and achieves great economic and social benefits. At the same time, these research results have provided theoretical guidance about clean mining technology for other coal mines.