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Despite China's position as a global mining powerhouse, tens of thousands of small- and medium-sized mines (SM mines) within the country continue to pose potential safety hazards and environmental pollution risks. Only through the identification of suitable development paths can these mines improve their economic and environmental benefits, ultimately driving significant progress in China's mining industry. Backfill mining, an environmentally friendly mining method, has emerged as a viable solution, offering the potential to ensure mining safety, reduce environmental pollution stemming from tailings stockpiles, and enhance ore resource recovery. This review article aims to provide researchers and readers with a comprehensive understanding of the current situation and challenges faced by SM mines in China. It explores the mining processes, technologies, and equipment commonly employed by these mines while addressing the specific problems and challenges they encounter. Furthermore, the article offers recommendations to guide the future development of SM mines. Additionally, the review examines the prospects and potential applications of backfill mining methods within the context of SM mines in China, emphasizing their role in promoting sustainable mining practices, environmental protection, and waste utilization. Ultimately, this comprehensive review article serves as a valuable resource, stimulating discourse and encouraging experts and scholars to further explore the unique challenges and opportunities associated with SM mines. By highlighting the significance of green mining practices, environmental protection, backfill mining, and waste utilization, the article aims to inspire innovative solutions and foster sustainable practices within the Chinese mining industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The backfill mining method is one of the common methods of mine mining worldwide, due to its capacity to maximize the recovery of mineral resources and protect the underground and the surface environment. Similar to the developing conditions of China's mining industry, China's backfill mining technology started late, and the level of its equipment is weak, but its development is particularly rapid. Especially after entering the 21st century, China has paid more attention to mining safety, environmental protection, and the continuous implementation of resources development, China's backfill mining method has increasingly improved, and the level of filling equipment has gradually reached the most advanced level worldwide, which means China has been making great progress in the equipment of backfill mining method, and in recent years, China has also made great progress in the theory of backfill pipeline transportation. Therefore, Part I mainly focuses on both the theory and equipment of backfill pipeline transportation and the recent progress China has made in is introduced in two sections as follows: (1) the theory of backfill pipeline transportation and (2) the equipment of the backfill mining method. Finally, the authors claim that this paper serves just as a guide, tossing out a brick to get a jade gem, and we hope many more experts and scholars will be interested and engage in the research of this field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the mining industry, with numerical simulation analysis of stope roof stability, stope exposed area computation, and pillar buckling collapse simulation, backfill body creep damage mechanism research is becoming the most popular method in the field of backfill mining techniques. In this paper, we first summarized and analyzed the current application status and the existing problems of numerical simulation for solving mining engineering technical problems; then, based on the practical engineering problems of mining phosphate rock resources under high and steep rock slopes (HSRS), we carried out a true-3D numerical simulation study for different underground mining methods, to determine the appropriate mining method. Therefore, this paper, taking Dingxi Mine in China as an example, highlights the advantages of the backfill mining method with a high and steep slope; meanwhile, it also points out how to improve the accuracy of a numerical simulation and make it more consistent with the actual situation of the mining engineering application site. This paper only serves as a guide, in order to start a conversation, and we hope many more experts and scholars will become interested and engaged in this field of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the continuous innovation and development of science and technology, the mining industry has also benefited greatly and improved over time, especially in the field of backfill mining. Mining researchers are increasingly working on cutting-edge technologies, such as applying artificial intelligence to mining production. However, in addition, some problems in the actual engineering are worth people's attention, and especially in China, such a big mining country, the actual engineering faces many problems. In recent years, Chinese mining researchers have conducted a lot of studies on practical engineering problems in the stope and goaf of backfill mining method in China, among which the three most important points are (1) Calculation problems of backfill slurry transportation; (2) Reliability analysis of backfill pipeline system; (3) Stope backfill process and technology. Therefore, this final part (Part III) will launch the research progress of China's practical engineering problems from the above two points. Finally, we claim that Part III serves just as a guide to starting a conversation, and hope that many more experts and scholars will be interested and engage in the research of this field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The backfill mining method is a widely used mining method in the major mines of China, which can maximize the recovery of mineral resources and protect the environment. Currently, major mines in China are starting to build backfill systems to apply the backfill mining method, therefore, Part II reviews the progress China has made on creating backfill systems, of which the main contents include: (1) Composition of the backfill system common in Chinese mines; (2) Typical examples of the backfill system in China. Finally, Part II serves as a guide to begin a conversation, and to encourage experts and scholars to engage in the research of this field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In view of the engineering geological conditions of the Bojitian gold deposit with complex concealed large gold deposits, the mining method is optimized by mathematical fuzzy method. Firstly, on the basis of the four primary mining methods, the index is quantified by the ranking method of the approximate ideal solution, and the Euclidean distance of the positive ideal solution calculated by the matrix is established, so as to determine the final order of advantages and disadvantages of the four mining methods according to the fitting degree. Secondly, through numerical simulation, the distribution of the maximum stress field and plastic zone is analyzed, and the order of advantages and disadvantages of the four primary mining methods is obtained. The results show that the upward drift filling mining method is the optimal mining method of Bojitian gold deposit, which provides a reference for the selection of mining methods of Bojitian gold deposit and accumulates experience for the mining of similar complex gold deposits in Guizhou. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The backfilling mining method can effectively solve the environmental and safety problems caused by mining. It is the key technology to realize green mining. Scientific development has accelerated the pace of research on the rational utilization of mine solid waste and improved the research level of backfilling technology. The development history of the backfilling mining method is introduced in the present paper, and it is determined that roof-contacting backfilling is the key technology of mine-solid-waste backfilling mining. This paper introduces three calculation methods of similar roof-contacted backfilling rates. In this paper, the relationship between the characteristics of backfilling slurry made from solid waste from mines and the roof-contacted backfilling rate is systematically analyzed, such as the flow law in stope (gravity gradient), bleeding shrinkage, and natural sedimentation of backfilling slurry. It is pointed out that the characteristics of the stope, such as washing-pipe water, water for the leading way, filling pipeline, and shape of the backfilling stope, are closely related to the roof-contacted backfilling rate. The influential relationship between objective factors, such as human factors, limited auxiliary leveling measures, and backfilling "one-time operation" in the backfilling process, and high-efficiency top filling are considered, and a schematic diagram of the influencing top-filling rate and structure is drawn. At the same time, this paper summarizes the improvement measures of roof connection from three aspects. These include the use of expansive non-shrinkable materials, forced roof-contacted technology, and strengthening management level. It is pointed out that the roof-contacted filling technology is still facing severe challenges, and the research on the backfilling connection technology needs to be strengthened. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In response to the problem that none-tight contact of filling body and the roof in the underground mined-out area causing roof damage and surface subsidence, this paper uses physical similar simulation and numerical simulation to study the damage deformation law in the roof in the underground mined-out area in terms of damage form and stress, at the same time, the internal displacement of the roof in underground mined-out area is monitored, which reduces the deviation of the influence of single factor and improves the reasonableness of the stability evaluation of the roof of the mined-out area. Through the physical experiment, it is found that under vertical loading, with the increase of load, cracks first appear in the central area of the roof, and gradually develop to the sidewall, until the model is completely destroyed. Through the numerical simulation experiment, it is found that there is a tensile stress concentration area in the central region, which is the most vulnerable to damage. The monitoring results show that with the increase of load, the displacement of the around roof is smaller than that of the central area, the closer to the roof centre, the smaller the displacement difference of the roof. The physical experiment, numerical simulation experiment and monitoring results are compared, and the three are in good agreement. The analysis results have guiding significance for the treatment of underground mined-out areas, underground mining methods and pillar remaining. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]