

Contemporary exploitation of natural raw materials by borehole, opencast, underground, seabed, and anthropogenic deposits is closely related to, among others, geomechanics, automation, computer science, and numerical methods. More and more often, individual fields of science...

Progress in the exploitation of natural raw materials is based on the interconnection between laboratory, numerical, and industrial research and the analysis of the results. These constitute the basis for developing new, more efficient exploitation methods while increasing...

The contemporary exploitation of natural raw materials requires the execution of many interrelated exploration, access, preparatory, and exploitation excavations. Presently, at each stage of mining, modern computer-aided design programs are used to quickly estimate the deposit...