Mining

Longwall mining demands safety and reliability in equipment

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 ...
Center for Public Integrity

Longwall coal mine companies push to “downgrade” stream pollution controls

Much has been made about the Bush administration’s 11th hour repeal of a key rule meant to keep coal-slurry waste out of Appalachian streams — a repeal that went into effect this month. But check out ...
Center for Public Integrity

First longwall mine in six years underway

Score one for King Coal in northern Appalachia. Today’s boom in the coalfields of southwestern Pennsylvania — where the 42.7 million tons extracted in 2007 fetches double its price ($111 a ton) of ...
Mining

Peabody orders complete Cat® longwall with advanced automation for North Goonyella Mine

06 March 2018 – Peabody recently ordered a complete Cat ® longwall mining system for its North Goonyella Mine located in central Queensland, Australia. The Cat longwall system includes roof supports ...
Mining Weekly

Study demonstrates longwall viability for Sasol

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.
Los Angeles Times

‘Longwall’ Mining Plan Falls Flat in Illinois

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 ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press

As a longwall coal mine grows beneath an Alabama town, neighbors of an explosion victim feel undermined and unheard

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. It is republished ...
Observer-Reporter

Coal council contends DEP not enforcing longwall operations

An Amwell Township-based environmental group has submitted a study to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, contending the agency is not diligently enforcing longwall mining ...
Illawarra Mercury

Longwall mining an investment in the Illawarra

Gujarat NRE executive chairman Arun Jagatramka thanked the Wollongong community as $90 million in new longwall mining equipment began its final testing phase at Russell Vale colliery.Mr Jagatramka ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Call to ban longwall mining near Newcastle

An environmental lobby group wants the State Government to ban all longwall mining under a conservation area near Newcastle where there has been substantial mine subsidence. Environment Minister Robyn ...
Observer-Reporter

Longwall mining to cause I-70 restrictions near W.Va./Pa. line

WHEELING – Expect to see lots of orange, fluorescent green and slow-moving traffic on Interstate 70 at the West Virginia/Pennsylvania state line over the next four-plus months. The orange will be from ...