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2. Stone picker - Wikipedia

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   A stone picker (or rock picker) is an implement to sieve through the top layer of soil to separate and collect rocks and soil debris from good topsoil. It is usually tractor -pulled. [ 1 ] A stone picker is similar in function to a rock windrower (rock rake); a stone picker generally digs to greater depths to remove stones and rocks.

3. Drill cuttings - Wikipedia

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   Drill cuttings carried by mud (drilling fluid) are usually retrieved at the surface of the platform where they go through shakers or vibrating machines to separate the cuttings from the drilling fluid, this process allows the circulating fluid to re-enter the drilling process.

4. Drilling and blasting - Wikipedia

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   Rock blasting in Finland. Drilling and blasting is the controlled use of explosives and other methods, such as gas pressure blasting pyrotechnics, to break rock for excavation. It is practiced most often in mining, quarrying and civil engineering such as dam, tunnel or road construction. The result of rock blasting is often known as a rock cut.

5. Suction excavator - Wikipedia

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   A suction excavator with vacuum excavation equipment operating in the Netherlands. Depending on the machine used and soil conditions, a 12-inch-square, 5-foot-deep pothole can be completed in 20 minutes or less. [7] Vacuum excavation is sometimes used in conjunction with conventional underground (one-call) locating services.

6. Mountaintop removal mining - Wikipedia

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   Mountaintop removal site Mountaintop removal site in Pike County, Kentucky. Mountaintop removal mining (MTR), also known as mountaintop mining (MTM), is a form of surface mining at the summit or summit ridge of a mountain. Coal seams are extracted from a mountain by removing the land, or overburden, above the seams. This process is considered ...

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