ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE DONBASS COMBINE IN STEPPING UP MINE PRODUCTION

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• Publication Date: November 6, 1950
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Economic - Coal mining
Monthly periodical
Moscow
Aug 1950
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ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE DONBASS COMBINE
IN STEPPING UP MINE PRODUCTION
I. V. Perov, A. S. Arkhangel'skiy
The number of Donbass combines employed in the mines of the Chistyakovantra-
tsit Trust increased steadily during 191+9 and the first 4 months of 1950, as is
shown in the following table:
Month
No of
Operating
Combines
AVE; g ..inc Face
Length (m)
Avg Seam
Productivity
tvsy-m)
Monthly
Combine
Productivity
Avg
Com
Min
Shi
Advance of
bine Along
e Face Der
ft (m)
1949
Jan
1
113
1.94
5,916
22.7
Feb
5
162
1.64
3,305
21.1
Mar
7
197
1.61
5,106
24.7
Apr
8
195
1.60
5,042
30.7
May
9
179
1.68
4,930
27.2
Jun
10
166
1.67
4,893
29.5
Jul
11
196
2.24
5,060
21.5
12
173
1.79
5,161
29.1
163
1.77
5,323
33.1
169
1.72
6,250
32.2
DATE OF 1950
INFORMATION
DATE DIST. d Nov 1950
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Month
No of
Operating
Combines
Avg Mine Face
Length m.)
Avg Seam
Productivity
(t/sq m _
Avg
Monthly Com
Combine Min
Productivity Sh
Advance of
bine Along
e Face per
ift
1949
Nov
14
146
1.68
5,172
29.8
Dec
15
154
1.59
5;163
31.4
Yearly
Average
9.7
173
1950
Jan
17
158
1.77
5,453
28.4
Feb
15
161
1.65
5,216
31.0
Mar
16
163
1.66
6,332
32.5
Apr
18
155
1.62
5,662
29.0
Average
16.5
160
1.68
5,700
30.2
The use of these combines greatly boosted the Chistyakovantratsit Trust's
anthracite output, as is shown in the following table.
Period
Extraction
Area of Mine Face Cut
1949
Tons Percent
S m
Percent
1st quarter
57,606
100
31,420
100
2d
quarter
129,11+6
224
72,400
230
3d
quarter
177,706
308
100;400
324
4th quarter
221,494
385
129,500
415
Total
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1-1172
j, I 1
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1950
let quarter 254,808 438
Apr 89,166 -
150,000 480
55,400 -
The Donbass combine has been in use at the 21st western face and the 20th
eastern face of Krasnaya Zvezda Mine, the 12th and 13th eastern faces and the 1st
western face of Mine No 3-bis, the 1st eastern face and the 3d western face of
the Mine imeni Lutugin, the 8th western face of Mine No 17-bis, the 8th western
face of Mine No 2; and the 3d western face of Mine No 100.
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RAISING THE PRODUCTIVITY OF KUZBASS MINE
In April 1949, the Leninugol' Trust of the Kemerovugol' Combine began to use
the Donbass combine in the Mine imeni S. M. Kirov at the mine face No 3 which works
the Yemel'yanovskiy seam. This seam is 1.1 meters thick, dips at an angle of 7
degrees, and the side walls are of soft argillite. Operations with the combine
at this mine face, however, were soon discontinued because of repeated breaks in
the roof and the combine was used instead at the 140-meter-long mine face No 22
which works the Boldyrevskiy seam. This seam is 1.6-1.8 meters thick, dips at an
angle of 6-7 degrees,, and the side walls are of moderately firm argillite.
Since the combine's cutting bar is only one meter high, its operation left
0.6?-0.8 meter of coal in the roof. After the combine had passed by, this coal
was loosened, thus interfering with the propping of the mine face. At the sug-
gestion of innovators, a combine was provided with a hinged ring-shaped cutting
bar, l.45 meters high, and was put into use at the mine faces No 22 and 23 of
the Boldyrevskiy aewi.
The best results from the use of the Donbass combine were achieved by section
No 10 which works the Snyatkovskiy seam at mine face No 25, 130 meters long. The
Snyatkovskiy seam is 1.4 meters thick and dips at an angle of 7 degrees. The cut-
ting bar of the combine was, in this case, 1.3 meters high.
Work at the mine face is organized on a schedule of one cycle per 24 hours,
consisting of two coal-extraction shifts and one repair and development-work shift.
The workers of the section have been regularly completing a cycle every 24 hours
with the aid of the' Donbass combine. The quarterly plan for coal extraction was
fulfilled 116.3 percent and for labor productivity 190-percent. The.number of
workers at the mine face has been decreased by 22. Above-plan coal extraction
amounted to 4,150 tons. During March 9,500 tons of coal were mined by the Donbass
combine.
Mine workers have made a number of suggestions aimed at a more efficient
use of combines and mastery of operational details in a short time. At present
an experiment with two combines, one on top of the other, is being carried out in
the Zhurinka-3 Mine to remove a seam 2 meters thick.
the La eni
ne im
In spite of the relatively short period, the combines in -
Kirov have made substantial achievements, but are still far behind those of the
outstanding mines of the Donets Basin.
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