Table 2 Main expense sources and costs of open pit mines.

From: Research on controlled mining of end slope fire-burned area in open-pit mine

Source of expenses

Average cost

Puncture blasting

Coal mining

8.51yuan/t

Stripping

13.97 yuan /m3

Mining and loading

Coal mining

5.89 yuan /t

Stripping

9.98 yuan /m3

Transportation

Coal

11.57 yuan /t

Rock

15.34 yuan /m3

Dumping

7.31 yuan /m3

Total coal cost Bc

25.97 yuan /t

Total rock cost Bb

46.6 yuan /m3