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2. Fly-in fly-out - Wikipedia

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   Usually, a fly-in fly-out job involves working a long shift (e.g., 12 hours each day) for a number of continuous days with all days off spent at home rather than at the work site. As the employee's work days are almost entirely taken up by working, sleeping, and eating, there is little need for any recreation facilities at the work site.

3. 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 ...

4. Bituminous Coal Operators Association - Wikipedia

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   The BCOA would strike deals between miners, mine companies, and coal buying companies to provide a steady flow of continuous labor and a steady purchasing price for coal. The main deals normally contained negotiations of some miners being put out of work by mechanizations while the miners left would be guaranteed a steady job and pay as long as ...

5. 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 ...

6. Bucket-wheel excavator - Wikipedia

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   Bucket-wheel excavators have been used in mining for the past century, with some of the first being manufactured in the 1920s. [1] They are used in conjunction with many other pieces of mining machinery (conveyor belts, spreaders, crushing stations, heap-leach systems, etc.) to move and mine massive amounts of overburden (waste). While the ...

7. Bitcoin Miner Crusoe Energy Buys Fellow Flared-Gas Operator GAM

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8. List of coal mines in Canada - Wikipedia

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   Operator Location Size Ref. Cheviot Yes Teck Hinton [10] Coal Valley Yes Westmoreland Coal Company Edson [10] Genesee Mine Yes Westmoreland Coal Company Edmonton [10] Grande Cache Yes CST Canada Coal Grande Cache [10] Gregg River No Westmoreland Coal Company Hinton [10] Highvale Mine Yes TransAlta and SunHills Mining Partnership Edmonton 12,600

9. 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 ...