All You Need To Know About Graphite Extraction: Types & Techniques
What are different types of graphite extraction techniques? Gain knowledge about the improved and enhanced techniques from reputed graphite mining service providers.
The most noticeable factors that are driving the graphite industry are various end-user applications in industries. This includes electric vehicles, refractories, foundry, lubricating agents, construction applications, and others. In addition, the lithium-ion battery industry’s high demand and significant steel production via graphite electrodes also increase its demand. But do you know how the graphite mining service providers in India carry out the process? In this blog get a brief idea about the different methods of graphite extraction.
Mining is the procedure of extracting minerals from an ore or rock seam. The minerals can range from precious metals like iron to gemstones and quartz. In the earlier times, experts can recognize a mineral rock formation from its outcrop at the surface. But now with improved technology and geophysical techniques, it is easier to conduct mining activities.
Among the different types of methods implemented to obtain graphite from mines, we are going to discuss a few of the techniques.
Graphite Extraction Techniques:-
- Open Pit Mining:
Surface or opencast mining is the easiest way to produce a mineral ore. This is possible when the deposits of economically valuable minerals lie close to the surface. At first the miners remove the vegetation and then soil cover above a mineral body. They remove further rock cover with explosives that create an open pit. For example, quarries are open-pit mines that produce building materials. Exhausted open-pit mines often become landfill sites for waste disposal.
- Strip Mining:
Strip mining is a variation of surface mining for thin but extensive mineral layers. These layers are close to the surface having stratas of soil or rock above them. Bulldozers scrape and remove layers of soil and vegetation. Moreover, there are explosives that break up the rock overburden and enable access to mineral ore. Coal, iron, and tar sands are the common minerals that undergo such mining.
- Underground Mining:
Underground mining starts by following a surface outcrop of mineral ore as it slopes into the ground. The ore could be just 20 feet below the surface. Shaft mines are the deepest underground mines that geologists found. Explosives break up the mineral ore rock and then the removal occurs by machinery to the shaft. Additionally, ventilation is necessary in deep mines for the removal of toxic gases and cooling.
Tasso Alloys Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian-listed mining company with three graphite mining leases, and a large land package. It is one of the leading graphite exploration and mining companies in India. This is only possible through its productive and ethical working relationships.