A detailed look at coal mining and the highwall method. When the last economic cut has been made with a surface mining operation, the coal seam ...

There are four main methods of mining: underground, surface, placer and in-situ. Each of the four mining methods are explained in this article.

A five-year test programme on an innovative mining method that could potentially be used to access high-grade orebodies that are either too small or too deep to be mined economically using ...

This paper reports compound emission rates (E) for 69–89 nonbiogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) for each of four surface mining facilities, determined with a top-down approach using ...

Mining solutions provider Wirtgen South Africa (SA) is engaged in extensive talks with various mining companies about solutions for their greenfield and existing mines. Surface miners are set to ...