“…Besides, previous studies have shown that different mining methods (Du and Gao, 2017;Zhou and Yu, 2022), mining parameters (Wang et al, 2020;Qi et al, 2022) and repeated mining of coal seams (Tian et al, 2019;Cheng et al, 2020) also affect the development height of water-conducting fracture zones. Based on a large number of engineering practices, different numerical analysis models (Zhang et al, 2017;Zeng et al, 2022), mechanical theoretical models (Ning et al, 2020;Zhu et al, 2020;Yang et al, 2021;Tan et al, 2022) and monitoring methods (Wang et al, 2016;Mondal et al, 2020) have been successively introduced into the prediction and exploration of the height of water-conducting fracture zones. In addition, some researchers have effectively observed the development of water-conducting fracture zones from the perspective of strain energy (Swift, 2013;Qi et al, 2019;Sainoki et al, 2019).…”