HISTORY OF ROCK BOLTING – Mining Science
HISTORY OF ROCK BOLTING. Rock bolting is one of the most efficient supporting devices ever developed. The earliest case of using bolts as a rock reinforcement method was in a slate quarry in North Wales in 1872 (Schach et al ., 1979). In 1918 a coal mine in Germany introduced bolts as a means of ground reinforcement (Lang …
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