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LABORATORY FACILITIES
 
Mine Environment Laboratory

  1. High Volume Air Sampler for ambient air quality monitoring
  2. Personal Dust Sampler for personal air quality assessment
  3. Multigas Detector for testing of ambient air quality in terms of gases pollutants.
  4. Whole Body Vibration Instrument for assessment of ergonometric factor of mechanical vibration for the HEMM operators
  5. Underground Ventilation Survey Equipment
  6. Anemometer for determination velocity and director of air
  7. Lux Meter for determination of lamination level in working zones.
  8. Sound Level Meter (LA 500) for determination of sound levels
  9. Orsat Apparatus - used to analyse a gas sample (typically fossil fuel flue gas) for its oxygen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide content.
  10. Gravimetric Dust Sampler
  11. Computerized weather Monitoring Station

 
Rock Mechanics & Ground Control Laboratory

  1. Concrete Testing Machine - used for determination of strength parameters of rock specimen
  2. Universal Testing Machine- used for determination of strength parameters of rock specimen
  3. Protodyankov Index Apparatus –used for determination of abrasive nature of the rock samples
  4. Point Load Index Apparatus – used for determination of insitu compressive strength of rock
  5. Shear Block – used for determination of shear strength of rock specimen
  6. Tri-axial Cell – used to determine the confined compressive strength of rock specimen
  7. Ultra-Sonic Pulse Velocity Apparatus – used to determine the longitudinal & shear waves velocity, and elastic constant of rock.
  8. Drillability Index Apparatus - to determine the drillability nature of rock (Percussive and rotary drilling)
  9. Creep Rig – to analyse the fatigue nature of the rockmass
  10. Slake Durability Index Apparatus – to determine the weathering nature of rockmass
  11. Shear Strength of Soil Apparatus – to determine the cohesion and friction nature of the soil
  12. Rock-Bolt Anchorage Pull Test Apparatus – to determine the pull strength (or) anchorage strength of rockbolt
  13. Aggregate Impact Strength Apparatus – to determine the aggregate strength of the road material
  14. Los Angeles Abrasion Test Apparatus – to determine the abrasive nature of the rock
  15. Core Drilling Machine – to obtain the core sample of required size for analysis

Besides, the laboratory has facilities for soil testing, coring, cutting and polishing of rock samples, as well as, equipment for determining cuttability, drillability, abrasivity, weatherability, and other properties of rocks.

 
Mineral Processing Laboratory
(Pilot Plant Mode)

  1. Dry Magnetic Separator
  2. Jaw Crusher
  3. Ball Grinding Mill
  4. Sieve shaker
  5. Hertz Jig
  6. Wilfley Table
  7. Riffle Sampler
  8. Froth flotation Cell
  9. Electromagnetic separator

 
Computer Applications in Mining Laboratory

  1. Matlab
  2. RocScience – Bundle (Slide2, RS2, Slide3, Settle3, Dips, RSPile, EX3, CPillar, RocTopple, RocData, RS3, RocFall, RocPlane, Rocsupport, SWedge, and UnWedge)
  3. 3 DEC Numerical Modelling
  4. Autocad
  5. Stat ease – Statistical Design of Experiments (Design Expert)
  6. Whole-Body Vibration Experiment
  7. SPSS
  8. ANSYS
  9. Programming language software

Mine Planning and Survey

  1. Total Survey Station, Pentax ATS102
  2. Workstation, HP XW 4200
  3. Global Positioning System, Trimble
  4. Levelling equipment
  5. Theodolites

 
Mining Machinery Laboratory

Working models of winding shaft, rope haulage, Longwall face, demonstrative models of rope-cappels, head gears, suspension gear, safety hooks and bell plates, types of wire ropes, heavy earth moving machine models like dumper, bull dozer, front-end loader, etc., electrical cables, coal drill, jack hammers, conveyor belting, etc.

 
Advanced Rock Blasting Laboratory

Fragblast softwares, for rock fragmentation and distribution analysis using the digital images acquired by a video/still camera. Vibration recorders and sophisticated chip based micro seismographs, to record blast vibration levels and analysis for peak particle velocity, dominant frequency, FFT analysis and safe vibration levels. Near- field acceleration measuring setup, for understanding rock-explosive interaction for blast damage assessment.

  1. Vibration recorders / seismographs, to record blast vibration levels and analysis for peak particle velocity, dominant frequency, FFT analysis and safe vibration levels (MiniMate plus, MiniMate Blaster and NOMIS Seismograph) – for close and far field monitoring.
  2. Fragmentation analysis software – FRAGALYST 4.0 version, a product of Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CIMFR), Dhanbad for rock fragmentation and distribution analysis using the digital images acquired by a video camera.
  3. GIS Softwares, for extracting and processing the information from mine plans and to update them with the latest information.