Due to its ability to extract very high percentages of the available seam, longwall mining now accounts for nearly 50% of all underground mining operations. However, any mining operation comes with a ...

WITT, Ill. — The nation’s hunt for fuel soon may sweep below the lush fields of corn and soybeans here, and it could dramatically change the prairie landscape. Two mining companies want to dig for ...

Management’s key operational timing message centered on Centurion’s ramp: Grech said the plan is to “optimize longwall automation by the end of May,” and that “we… feel very good about getting this ...

Whitehaven Coal Limited has placed an order for 50 Cat ® longwall roof supports to extend its Narrabri North longwall from 300 meters to 400 meters—to increase production and reduce costs. Already ...

A 30-year-old mining technique is becoming all that's keeping a group of U.S. coal producers from joining their competitors in bankruptcy. Coal, already locked in a battle with cheap natural gas, now ...

In the recent past, there was a radical new technology to make work easier and dramatically increase productivity. It would reduce much of the drudgery of work and transform the industry. I am ...