The longwall mining process itself – where the miners dig out a panel of coal about 1,000 feet wide and two miles long – operates in a similar way that a meat slicer cuts a slab of meat. Miners use ...

Queensland researchers have a better understanding of the world's tectonic plate stress patterns caused by the underground ...

But by the late 1970s and into the 1980s, the industry was touting what it called a better, more efficient method for underground mining. Longwall mining, which gets its name from digging out coal ...

The company has been experimenting with longwall mining in the northern area of the mine with an eye toward using the technique in the proposed underground mine.

CAMERON, W.Va. — As longwall mining becomes an increasing concern near Cameron, the city clerk is preparing residents for what may come. “I just want them to be responsible for their actions ...

A New South Wales Resources Regulator investigation has been launched into an underground coal mine fire. A crew was mining ...

VOLUMOUS COAL The new 242-m-long eleventh longwall face possesses reserves of 993 000 t of coal Forty kilometres from the front line of the war in Ukraine, vertically integrated mining and metals ...