The continuous miner was cutting into the roof to make way for a conveyor belt and was cutting into both rock and coal, according to Campbell. "I asked them, 'What are you doing?' " Campbell says.

The Joy Continuous Miner will not solve the labor problem in coal mines. John L. Lewis once said that he would rather have 100,000 union members secure in their jobs than 400,000 who were insecure.

The Eickhoff CM2H-30 continuous miner supplied to coal miner Total Coal South Africa’s (TCSA’s) Forzando mine, in Mpumalanga, has exceeded the 5.8 t/m tender production rate requirement in 26 ...

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 ...