Well, it was there in spirit anyway. Komatsu is calling the MC51—a machine more than 10 years in the making—a continuous mining machine, and it’s been designed to completely disrupt the ...

"The high-rate excavation needed to harvest helium-3 from the moon in large quantities has never been attempted before, let ...

Continuous surfacing mining is proving to be efficient and more sustainable for many mines. Using surface excavation machines equipped with powerful cutting wheels to break up hard, rocky material ...

That's what we do in here every day!" In Emerald's longwall operation, continuous mining machines are used to bore connecting tunnels through the coal seam -- as much as 210 ft. per day -- and to ...

Pike River Coal Limited is gearing up for coal production with the delivery to New Zealand of the first of two continuous mining machines, costing in excess of $5 million each. The first ...

On January 19, 36-year-old Nathan Phillips was killed as he operated a continuous mining machine in the western Kentucky Dotiki Mine. A preliminary report from the federal Mine Safety and Health ...

The two miners – a continuous mining machine operator and a roof bolting machine operator – were fatally injured, she said. The West Virginia Department of Commerce identified the victims as ...