GREEN RIVER - Like hunters tracking big game, miners have to follow the coal seams wherever they go. At the Bridger Coal Company's surface mine in southwest Wyoming, following the seams means leasing ...

Mindset Mining Consultants MD Alan Gissing and senior mining engineer Ronnie van Eeden discuss a recently completed longwall mining feasibility study conducted for energy and chemicals company Sasol.

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to the latest market study released by Technavio, the global underground mining equipment market is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 4% during the forecast ...

Wallarah 2 has a coal resource of 375-million tonnes. The project entails the development of a new underground coal mine using longwall mining methods for the extraction of up to five-million tonnes ...

There are four main methods of mining: underground, surface, placer and in-situ. The type of mining method used depends on the kind of resource that is being targeted for extraction, the deposit's ...

Szczur said PennDOT officials are using top-of-the-line technology to monitor the potential effects of longwall mining on the I-70 corridor. LiDAR, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging, is a ...