Hal.Evans many years after leaving the pit. There were two men to operate a Siscol cutter at the coal face, as we had to cut the layer of stone out of the coal,which was comprised of a top layer ...

It has been 10 years since the last piece of coal was extracted at Thoresby Colliery, marking the end of Nottinghamshire's ...

The employment of coal-cutting machines, worked by compressed air, conveyed into the mine by pipes, is already an accomplished fact; and when the difficulties and the objections which usually ...

Hurt allegedly had been directed to improperly bypass the circuit breaker on a 575-volt coal-cutting machine. MSHA fined the James River subsidiary $23,000 for safety violations in that case.

This article was originally published with the title “Improved Coal-Cutting Machine” inSA Supplements Vol. 5 No. 107supp(January 1878), p. 1702doi:10.1038/scientificamerican01191878-1702asupp ...

The pillar and stall method of mining should be replaced by the long wall method, and coal-cutting machines would render blasting unnecessary.

The high cost of transporting coal is one reason coal has lost ground to other fuels. While the price of coal at the mine $4.85 a ton; has dropped over the past eight years, the average cost per ...

Since 1864, underground mining equipment manufacturer Eickhoff has been improving the lives of coal miners with the production of coal mining machines, having made the first coal cutting system in ...

The three miners rescued alive were working on an upper level. Below, the workings were choked with wreckage and deadly gas. Miners blamed sparks from an electric coal-cutting machine for the blast.

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 ...

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