Method of no-pillar mining with gob-entry retaining adapted for fully-mechanized top coal caving in thick coal seam

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a technical field of coal mining, particularly to a method of no-pillar mining with gob-entry retaining adapted for fully-mechanized top coal caving in a thick coal seam, which comprises the following steps: reinforcing support on a roof and two sides of a roadway; performing roof slitting blasting to form a pre-splitting slit; erecting a temporary support device and a gangue retaining device in the roadway along the retained entry; performing no caving within a range of a preset distance at an end of the working face near the retained entry side; and removing the temporary support device in the roadway after entry forming stabilizes, and closing the goaf to complete entry retaining. The roof slitting blasting is more beneficial to collapse of strata in the goaf, so that the strata in the slit can better fill stoping space after collapse, and the roof of the retained entry forms a short arm beam structure laterally, which avoids forming a long suspended roof in the goaf, and improves the stress of surrounding rock of gob-side entry retaining; coal caving is not performed in a certain range at the end of the working face of the retained entry side, which further ensures the filling effect of the goaf on the retained entry side, effectively limits the rotary sinking of blocks of the main roof, and greatly reduces effect on the stability of the retained entry.