Waste production in mines

[BlockBlastBrudi]

According to the menue, a (vanilla) coal mine will produce 3557,40 tonnes of waste per day? An iron mine even more.

Assuming that the mine mostly produces construction waste, i would need around 40 construction waste separation plants to cope with the trash of just one mine....

Is that figure for waste production correct or a bug?

[ChalwaBechatex]

For sure it's an error in description.

[Autumn]

It's a bug in the description, for certain. The actual production in my experience seems to be roughly 25 tons of mixed waste for every 60 or so tons of coal both mined and processed. I'm not certain how much is from the mine specifically.

It's also worth noting that separation plants are more a luxury than a necessity, making your country's trash another country's problem is incredibly cheap unless you're far from the border.

[BlockBlastBrudi]

It has been corrected and now says 16,17 tonnes for the coal mine.

Thanks for your answers and the quick fix.

[Joman]

I want to build a coal mine on a mountain. How can I transport the waste from the coal mine? Trucks? Cable cars?

[Silent_Shadow]

Cable cars work well. If you build the heavy variant you can use it to both get workers up there and haul waste down. You'll have to choose between sending waste down mixed or building two cableways; one for each waste. You could also send just the construction waste down by cableway and have the odd truck go up to get the rest of the waste.

[Joman]

It only produces mixed waste, I think. I get it down with a cable way and separate it. It contains a lot of construction waste of course.

[Silent_Shadow]

Mines have factory connections that a dump can attach to; set the dump to construction waste only and the mine will automatically separate it's construction waste into the dump. From there you can connect the dump directly to a cableway station or use trucks to shuttle the waste over.

[Joman]

Oh man!
This game is so complex. But I like it for being like this.
I will try it, with my next mine. Probably iron ore.

For my coal mine I continue using the separator facilty.

[CaPY]

Heh huge gravel piles under mines just like in Captain of Industry. But that wouldn't work in this game since deposits are infinite size and gravel piles would also be infinite size.
And then there is slag.

[nosquimoriturisumus]

The effort required to deal with mine waste is quite imbalanced IMO.

IRL mine tailings don't get separated, incinerated, or exported. They just dump them in a giant pile beside the mine. Doing something more efficient with the tailings should be an option but the default should be that they just accumulate in a big pile, not that the mine will stop working unless you have an extensive infrastructure to send the tailings offmap.

I'm finding that trying to do anything with the waste from mines is a noob trap anyway; it's mostly either unburnable waste or construction waste, and by the time you have mines and a steel production chain up and running you probably have more gravel than you can use anyway.

[Joman]

Until now, I make gravel from the mine waste. And I'm using it. No exports.