as we had to cut the layer of stone out of the coal,which was comprised of a top layer of coal, stone, coal. The machine was set to cut from side to side at a predetermined height and there was a ...

The coal-cutting machine is stalled today, otherwise it would be chewing its way along the 310-yard-long seam, mouthparts clamped to the coal like a snail to aquarium glass. The coal would be ...

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Below, the workings were choked with wreckage and deadly gas. Miners blamed sparks from an electric coal-cutting machine for the blast. Hugh C. Rice, manager of the mine, admitted that his company ...

Harworth's coal face is two metres high and glistens black as the coal cutting machine rips it out. In one pass or 'shear', it takes out 515 tonnes of coal which run past us on a belt and away to ...