CMR 2017

Chapter 10
Mine working

Conceptuals

Devendra Singh Tomar

REGULATIONS IN THE CHAPTER
 104 - Safety management plan
 105 - Manual opencast working
 106 - Mechanised opencast working
 107 - Reclamation
 108 - Spoil-banks and dumps
 109 - Transport rules
 110 - Codes of practice
 111 - Development work
 112 - Depillaring operations
 113 - Extraction of coal by method other than bord and pillar system
 114 - Saving
 115 - Roads and working places
 116 - Powers of inspectors
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 117 - Pointing out of contraventions during inspections
 118 - Multi section and contiguous working
 119 - Working under railways and roads etc
 120 - Protective work before a mine is closed
 121 - Working near mine boundaries in belowground mines
 122 - Working near mine boundaries in opencast mines
 123 - Strata control and monitoring plan
 124 - Setting of supports
 125 - Withdrawals of supports
 126 - Provisions of roof canopies or cabs
 127 - Steep working
 128 - Fencings and gates
 129 - Examination by sirdars
 130 - Avoidance of dangers
 131 - Working at height
 132 - General precautions
111 - DEVELOPMENT WORK
 No gallery in a seam or section shall exceed 3m in height
or 4.8m in width at any place.
 The pillars formed be rectangular in shape.

 The distance between the centres of any two adjacent

pillars left in a seam or section shall not be less than that
specified in the table below:-
 Dimensions of pillars or galleries render that crushing of
pillars or the premature collapse of any part of the
workings is likely to occur.
Depth of seam from Where the width of Where the width of Where the width of Where the width of
the surface the galleries does not the galleries does not the galleries does not the galleries does not
exceed 3.0m exceed 3.6m exceed 4.2m exceed 4.8m

The distance between centres of adjacent pillars shall not be less than

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

metres metres metres metres
Not exceeding 60m
12 15 18 19.5
Exceeding 60 but not
exceeding 90m
13.5 16.5 19.5 21
Exceeding 90 but not 16.5 19.5 22.5 25.5
exceeding 150m

Exceeding 150 but not 22.5 25.5 30.5 34.5

exceeding 240m

Exceeding 240 but not

exceeding 360m
28.5 34.5 39.5 45

Exceeding 360m
39 42 45 48
112 - DEPILLARING OPERATIONS
 No extraction or reduction of pillars be performed without the
permission of the Regional Inspector.
 The extraction or reduction of pillars shall be conducted in such a way
as to prevent as far as possible the extension of a collapse or
subsidence of the goaf over pillars which have not been extracted.
 Splitting or reduction of pillars or the heightening of galleries shall be
restricted to a maximum of 4 pillars.
 The width of the split galleries shall not exceed the width specified for
galleries.
 Where the voids formed as a result of extraction are stowed with sand or
other materials, a statement giving the quantity of coal raised and the
quantity of sand or other material stowed in every district during the
preceding month shall be submitted before the 10th day of every month
to the Regional Inspector.
115 - ROADS AND WORKING PLACES
 Whenever crush of pillars or any symptom of an impending
collapse other than ordinarily caused by pillar extraction is
detected, the manager shall inform the Regional Inspector
forthwith.
118 - MULTI SECTION AND CONTIGUOUS WORKING
 No work in a higher seam or section shall be done over an
area in a lower seam or section which may collapse.
 No workings shall be made in any two seams lying within
9m of each other.
 Where two or more such seams or sections are worked in a
mine the pillars in one seam or section shall as far as
practicable be vertically above or below the pillars in the
other seam or section.
119 - WORKING UNDER RAILWAYS AND ROADS ETC.
 No working shall be made and no work of extraction or
reduction of pillars shall be conducted at or extended to
any point within 45m of any railway or of any public
works.
120 - PROTECTIVE WORK BEFORE A MINE IS CLOSED
 The chief inspector may order in writing to construct in the
mine belowground or on the surface such protective works
within such time as he may specify therein.
 No less than two entrances shall be kept intact and in
working order.
121 - WORKING NEAR MINE BOUNDARIES IN
BELOWGROUND MINES

 No working shall be made within a distance equal to half

the distance as specified in column (5) of table under sub-
regulation (4) of regulation 111.
 Where work is done in more than one seam, the barrier
kept at the boundary shall, as far as practicable, be
vertically coincident and of the same dimensions.
122 - WORKING NEAR MINE BOUNDARIES IN OPENCAST
MINES

 No working shall be made within a distance of 7.5m of the

boundary of any mine and in case of a disputed boundary,
no working shall be made within a distance of 7.5m of the
boundary claimed by the owner of an adjacent mine.