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i ra(jc ~ <br />DEVEIAPMENT <br />• Entry is via a nine-foot-high-by-eleven-foot-wide, <br />17~i decline which will be driven 1,700 feet by conven- <br />tional drill-blast techniques loading with two-yard, rubber- <br />tired vehicles and tramming with ten-ton haulage units. <br />While ore and waste loading pockets are being installed, <br />a rail will be laid in the decline, and a surface hoist <br />will be installed. Metal sets with wooden lagging will be <br />used in bad ground with resin rock bolts being utilized <br />wherever possible. <br />Then, upon completion of the development drifts, raises <br />and equipment ramps will be installed to the ore horizons; <br />rail with a camel-back dumping system will be installed in <br />the main haulage drifts. The sub-level drifts will then be <br />• driven, after the sub-level is complete, mining will begin <br />on the stope surrounding it. <br /> <br />MINING <br />The stoping will begin once develapment has progressed <br />far enough so that each stope can be mined by a retreat <br />room-and-pillar system. This method is very similar to that <br />presently being used in the Uravan Mineral Belt, i.e., leaving <br />ore and waste pillars wherever necessary and installing bolts <br />and mats for roof support. The stope will be fully developed <br />to its outermost limits, and longholing will be used to help <br />delineate the ore zone prior to the commencement of mining. <br /> <br />