Abstract:In the Gudan mining district of Siding Lead-Zinc Mine, development has been carried out through driftway. There is an orebody of small scale lying below the lowest development level. The shallow hole room-and-pillar mining method was used to recover the small orebody in which an in-seam incline was driven for ore removal using electric scrapers. Using this mining system, it is unnecessary to drive horizontal transportation drifts at the lower level for haulage, thus eradicating the hoisting procedure and raising mining profitability. This paper deals in detail with the layout of mining drifts and development drifts as well as with the stoping procedure, along with its main technical and economical indices.