Highwall safety is an integral part of the EnviroWatch environmental monitoring suite. Mining operations, particularly in open-cut settings, rely significantly on highwall stability for operational safety and efficiency. Highwalls, the unexcavated faces of exposed overburden and coal in surface mines, demand meticulous attention and strategic management to mitigate hazards …
Highwall mining is a mining method to extract coal from a final boundary in open cut mining, trench mining or contour mining. This boundary may have been reached because of economic constraints (economic strip limit) or geographic constraints (spoil heaps, rivers etc.). Coal is mined from visible, horizontal, or near horizontal coal seams by making rectangular, …