RESEARCH TOPICS

Mining Department

Tallinn University of Technology

Estonia

Mining depends on technology

Open cast, longwall, room-and-pillar and quarry mining

Estonia has been test site for mining hard limestone and Oil Shale both in underground and surface mines.

Our current interest is continuous mining technology.

Breakage of oil shale by cutting

Photos of tests can be seen here: photos.

Veiko Karu

maeinst@ttu.ee

Technology depends on us

Mining Technology for flat deposits