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  2. Coal mining - Wikipedia

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    During servicing, the "continuous" miner moves to another face. Some continuous miners can bolt and rock dust the face, two major components of servicing, while cutting coal, while a trained crew may be able to advance ventilation, to truly earn the "continuous" label. However, very few mines are able to achieve it. Most continuous mining ...

  3. Room and pillar mining - Wikipedia

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    More modern room and pillar mines use a more "continuous" method, that uses machinery to simultaneously grind off rock and move it to the surface. [12] Other processes, such as backfill, where discarded tailings are unloaded into mined-out areas, [9] can be used, but are not required. Retreat mining (below) is an example of a process like this.

  4. Longwall mining - Wikipedia

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    Longwall mining is a form of underground coal mining where a long wall of coal is mined in a single slice (typically 0.6–6.0 m (2 ft 0 in – 19 ft 8 in) thick). The section of rock that is being mined, known as the longwall panel, is typically 3–4 km (1.9–2.5 mi) long, but can be up to 7.5 km (4.7 mi) long and 250–400 m (820–1,310 ft) wide.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Joy Global - Wikipedia

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    Continuous miners – electric, self-propelled digging machines that cut material using carbide-tipped bits on a horizontal rotating drum. Longwall shearers – a material-cutting machine that moves back and forth on an armored face conveyor running parallel to the coal or other material being mined.

  7. Surface mining - Wikipedia

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    The Siilinjärvi carbonatite complex, [1] an open-pit mine owned by Yara International, in Siilinjärvi, Finland Coal strip mine in Wyoming. Surface mining, including strip mining, open-pit mining and mountaintop removal mining, is a broad category of mining in which soil and rock overlying the mineral deposit (the overburden) are removed, in contrast to underground mining, in which the ...

  8. Deep sea mining - Wikipedia

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    The continuous-line bucket system (CLB) is an older approach. It operates like a conveyor-belt, running from the bottom to the surface where a ship or mining platform extracts the minerals, and returns the tailings to the ocean. [75] Hydraulic suction mining instead lowers a pipe to the seafloor and pumps nodules up to the ship.

  9. Bowen's reaction series - Wikipedia

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    Within the field of geology, Bowen's reaction series is the work of the Canadian petrologist Norman L. Bowen, [1] who summarized, based on experiments and observations of natural rocks, the sequence of crystallization of common silicate minerals from typical basaltic magma undergoing fractional crystallization (i.e. crystallization wherein early-formed crystals are removed from the magma by ...