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  2. Coal mining - Wikipedia

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    Continuous mining utilizes a continuous miner machine with a large rotating steel drum equipped with tungsten carbide picks that scrape coal from the seam. Operating in a "room and pillar", also known as "bord and pillar" system, where the mine is divided into a series of 20-to-30-foot (5–10 m) "rooms" or work areas cut into the coalbed—it ...

  3. Underground soft-rock mining - Wikipedia

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    Shortwall mining – A coal mining method that accounts for less than 1% of deep coal production, shortwall involves the use of a continuous mining machine with moveable roof supports, similar to longwall. The continuous miner shears coal panels 150–200 feet wide and more than a half-mile long, depending on other things like the strata of the ...

  4. Lithgow State Mine Heritage Park & Railway - Wikipedia

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    The mining museum contains Australia's most comprehensive collection of coalmining artefacts, including coal cutters, coal loaders, continuous miners and underground transports. A recently developed multimedia exhibit titled "Fire in the Mine" explores the working lives of coalminers in the mid Twentieth Century and the horrific consequences of ...

  5. Bucket-wheel excavator - Wikipedia

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    Note the 40-ton CAT wheeled dozer at lower left for size comparison. A bucket-wheel excavator (BWE) is a large heavy equipment machine used in surface mining. Their primary function is that of a continuous digging machine in large-scale open-pit mining operations, removing thousands of tons of overburden a day.

  6. Minecart - Wikipedia

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    Cart from 16th century, found in Transylvania. A minecart, mine cart, or mine car (or more rarely mine trolley or mine hutch) is a type of rolling stock found on a mine railway, used for transporting ore and materials procured in the process of traditional mining.

  7. Singareni Collieries Company - Wikipedia

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    The Singareni Collieries Company Limited or SCCL is a government-owned-coal mining corporation in India. It is under the ownership of Department of Energy , Government of Telangana . The Union Government's administration of the company is through the 49% ownership held by Ministry of Coal .

  8. General Mining Act of 1872 - Wikipedia

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    "My claim, Sir!" A prospector defends his claim at the Comstock Lode, 1861.. Miners and prospectors in the California Gold Rush of 1849 found themselves in a legal vacuum. . Although the US federal government had laws governing the leasing of mineral land, the United States had only recently acquired California by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and had little presence in the newly acquired ...

  9. Joy Global - Wikipedia

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    Joy Mining Machinery (Joy) was the world's largest producer of high productivity underground mining machinery for the extraction of coal and other bedded materials including trona and salt. Its products included: Continuous miners – electric, self-propelled digging machines that cut material using carbide-tipped bits on a horizontal rotating ...