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Timothy B. Dimock0
Eric Jackson0
Donald Duncan Young0
Edward William Drew Anwyll0
Fredric Christopher Delabbio0
Marilyn Patricia Ann Hames0
Simon Mark Jackson0
Date of Patent
February 22, 2005
0Patent Application Number
103092370
Date Filed
December 4, 2002
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The present invention is directed to a mining method for steeply dipping orebodies. In the method, an excavator 152 is tethered to a deployment system 120 by one or more cables/umbilicals 144. The excavator 152 excavates slices 172a-h of the orebody 100 by moving generally up-dip, down-dip or a combination thereof. The excavator can be automated.
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