Process of Mining Operations

The usual way of open cast mining has to do with digging the tar sand from a layer deposit of and moving what has been dug to a cycle of trucks and each one of these is used to transfer the dug out tar sand to a fixed fluid conveyor inlet station. The fluid conveyor inlet station is attached to a remote processing plant by a conveying pipeline and supplies the point of facilitating the tar sand to be placed into the conveying pipeline. The fluid conveyor inlet station is in addition joined by a pipeline to a supply of conveying fluid, in most cases water. The source of water is as a rule a settlement pond situated at the processing plant and because of this it is common for the fluid conveyor inlet station to be linked to the processing plant by a couple pipelines that work at the same time from the processing plant to the fluid conveyor inlet station.

The fluid conveyor inlet station consists of a mixing chamber into which the tar sand is set by the trucks. In the mixing compartment the tar sand is combined with water so as to generate a slurry. The slurry is then passed through a sizer in order to get rid of the useless big bulges and is the placed into a fluid pump that is attached to the tar sand conveying pipeline and pumped all along the conveying pipeline to the processing station. On average the most throughput of tar sand is in the order of 5000 tons per hour and in order to convey this amount from the fluid conveyor input station to the tar sand processing station the diameter of the conveying pipeline is somewhere around one meter.

In most cases the distance among the fluid conveyor input and the processing station is somewhere around four kilometers. Because of this it is vital for the slurry to keep on being pumped through the conveying pipeline so as to avoid settlement of the tar sand in the pipeline. If this were to take place, it would be very essential to pump water only along the tar sand conveying pipeline until the settled tar sand can be detached. When this occurs and during this process the mining of the tar sand has to be closed down. A universal purpose of this type of tool is to make available a device and process for mining of minerals which facilitate the mineral that has been found to be placed into a fluid conveyor at the site of mining for transport to an isolated spot and in that way prevent the need for a large number of trucks and a fixed fluid conveyor inlet station.

According to a certain feature of this device an apparatus for transporting mineral would be made available from a point of mining to a isolated spot, and the apparatus would also include a mobile mineral breaker rig that would have a mineral outlet, the rig would include a fluid inlet pipe for receiving conveying fluid, a mineral inlet for initiating mineral from said mineral outlet into said fluid pipe and a fluid outlet pipe for conveying said fluid mixed with mineral received from said mineral outlet, an extensible pipeline gathering linked at one end to said inlet and outlet pipes and which is adapted for connection at the other end to one side of a static pipeline in touch with a remote location, an extensible pipeline assembly being expandable to facilitate a mobile rig to move away from one end of the static pipeline while at the same time keeping the communication of the fluid therewith, on an extensible pipeline assembly made up of a series of lengthened pipe assemblies that are articulated at adjacent ends to one another in a zigzag way by means of an articulated joint, each elongated pipe assembly would include a couple lengths of pipe which are set up next to each other and fastened simultaneously so that one extent of pipe defines a higher pipe and the other length of the pipe that defines a lower pipe, the articulated joint connecting each end of the adjacent lengthened pipe assembly together with an higher rotating joint that attaches adjacent ends of the upper pipes of the adjacent pipe assemblies and a lower rotary joint that connects adjacent ends of the lower pipes of adjacent pipe assemblies, the axis of rotation of the higher and lower rotary joints of each articulated joint would be coaxial.