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  2. Underground personnel carrier - Wikipedia

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    An underground personnel carrier is any heavy duty vehicle designed specifically for the safe transport of personnel and their supplies into underground work areas. The most common underground applications is for the mining of either precious metal or coal .

  3. Coal mining - Wikipedia

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    Opencast coal mining recovers a greater proportion of the coal deposit than underground methods, as more of the coal seams in the strata may be exploited. This equipment can include the following: Draglines which operate by removing the overburden, power shovels, large trucks in which transport overburden and coal, bucket wheel excavators, and ...

  4. Hoist (mining) - Wikipedia

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    A drum hoist (steel wire rope visible) and motor. In underground mining a hoist or winder [1] is used to raise and lower conveyances within the mine shaft.Modern hoists are normally powered using electric motors, historically with direct current drives utilizing Ward Leonard control machines and later solid-state converters (), however modern large hoists use alternating current drives that ...

  5. Minecart - Wikipedia

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    Cart from 16th century, found in Transylvania A dumper minecart used in the Basque Country, currently at the Minery Museum.. 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.

  6. Joy Global - Wikipedia

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    Joy Global Inc. was a company that manufactured and serviced heavy equipment used in the extraction and haulage of coal and minerals in both underground and surface mining. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] The company had manufacturing facilities in Alabama, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin, Australia, Canada, China, France, South Africa, Poland and the United ...

  7. Category:Mining equipment - Wikipedia

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    Mining equipment companies (2 C, 34 P) R. ... Coal homogenization; Conveyor bridge; Corf (mining) ... Underground personnel carrier; V.

  8. Mine rescue chamber - Wikipedia

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    A mine rescue chamber is an emergency shelter installed in hazardous environments, typically underground. It is also known as refuge chamber, [1] refuge bay, or refuge alternative. Refuge chambers come in multiple types and models, and are used in multiple industries including metalliferous mining, coal, tunnelling and petrochemical facilities.

  9. Glossary of coal mining terminology - Wikipedia

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    Face or coal face. The coal face is the place where coal is cut from the coal seam either manually by hewers or mechanically by machine. [6] Firedamp. Firedamp is explosive, flammable gas consisting predominantly of methane. [1] Fitter. A fitter is a worker responsible for the maintenance of underground machinery. Furnace, furnace pit

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