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The paper presents the unusually rapid opening of the Mavropigi lignite mine in the Western Macedonia area, Northern Greece. Three mines, employing totally 9-10 small to medium sized Bucket Wheel Excavators (BWEs) and producing annually 7-8 million tons of lignite, were scheduled to close between 2006 and 2010 and be replaced by a new bigger mine. The transition from the three closing mines to the new one had to be planned carefully, in order to maintain the total annual lignite production level. Proper short-term mine planning and design of both the initial box-cut and of the first benches, permitted the deployment of four BWEs within a 13-month period, an achievement acknowledged as “best practice”.
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Kolovos, C.J. (2015). “Best Practice” Concepts for a Fast-Track Lignite Mine Opening. In: Niemann-Delius, C. (eds) Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium Continuous Surface Mining - Aachen 2014. Lecture Notes in Production Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12301-1_25
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