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Development of mining technology and equipment for seafloor massive sulfide deposits

Author(s) -

Shaojun Liu,

Jianhua Hu,

Ruiqiang Zhang,

Yu Dai,

Yang Hengling

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

chinese journal of mechanical engineering

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.543

H-Index - 33

eISSN - 2192-8258

pISSN - 1000-9345

DOI - 10.3901/cjme.2016.0815.093

Subject(s) - mining engineering , seafloor spreading , china , geology , oceanography , archaeology , geography

Seafloor massive sulfide(SMS) deposits which consist of Au, Ag, Cu, and other metal elements, have been a target of commercial mining in recent decades. The demand for established and reliable commercial mining system for SMS deposits is increasing within the marine mining industry. The current status and progress of mining technology and equipment for SMS deposits are introduced. First, the mining technology and other recent developments of SMS deposits are comprehensively explained and analyzed. The seafloor production tools manufactured by Nautilus Minerals and similar mining tools from Japan for SMS deposits are compared and discussed in turn. Second, SMS deposit mining technology research being conducted in China is described, and a new SMS deposits mining tool is designed according to the environmental requirement. Finally, some new trends of mining technology of SMS deposits are summarized and analyzed. All of these conclusions and results have reference value and guiding significance for the research of SMS deposit mining in China.

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