Authors: M.D. Skursky

Title of the article: General information about the Kuznetsky coal basin. Mining, geological and geotechnical conditions of coal deposits exploitation

Year: 2025, Issue: 3, Pages: 4-56

Branch of knowledge: 2.8.8 Mining machines, geotechnology (engineering)

Index UDK: 553.94/96+553.98+553.49

DOI: 10.26730/2618-7434-2025-3-4-56

Abstract: Development of coal deposits is one of the most complicated branches of the mining industry due to significant differences in the degree of lithification and metamorphism of both coals and host rocks, diversity of structural forms of rock occurrence and their disturbance, manifested not only in deposits of different genetic types, but also within the same deposit (often within the boundaries of the mine field or surface mine). Mining operations are complicated by the multi-seam nature of the fields, differences in the thickness and structure of coal seams, sharp differentiation in the thickness of interseam intervals, the phenomena of splitting and genetic cleavage of coal seams, manifestations of scour, small-amplitude tectonics, etc. These geological peculiarities determine the necessity to create numerous types of mining equipment, complicate the course of operating works and labor conditions of workers. Specific to the development of coal deposits are such complicating factors as spontaneous combustion of coal, gas emissions, explosiveness of coal dust, manifestations of coal, gas and rock emissions, mining shocks, etc. Further technical and economic progress of the coal industry is impossible without comprehensive and deep knowledge of mining and geological conditions of coal deposits development. In a broad concept mining-geological conditions of development include: the relief of the field, morphology, depth and structural conditions of occurrence of coal seams (tectonics), their thickness, structure, degree of maturity and distribution in the section (coal-bearingness), composition and physical and mechanical properties of coals and rocks, natural gas content of the field, watering and its temperature regime. This article considers mining, geological and geotechnical conditions for the development of coal deposits, including in relation to the Kuznetsk coal basin.

Key words: Kuzbass hard coal Kuznetsk coal basin coal grades geological structure tectonics coal-bearing deposits coal seam geotechnical engineering control of rock mass condition coal properties spontaneous combustion landslides water saturation rock mass deformation coal metamorphism slope stability coal properties

Receiving date: 17.09.2021

Approval date: 22.09.2025

Publication date: 19.12.2025

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