HUME Coal's "pine feather" mining method for its proposed underground coal mine in New South Wales Southern Highlands was largely selected to minimise subsidence levels and associated impacts to surface features. Sadly it was found to be wanting by both the Department of Environment and Planning and the Resources Regulator.
Hume Coal claimed the system would give long-term stability to the overlying strata. The mine layout included slender pillars, with plunges driven off the outside roadways and a 50m wide barrier pillar...
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