Draglines are commonly used to remove the blasted overburden from open cut coal mines. The overburden may be up to 50 m in depth and consists of rock fragments of varying size. Its removal exposes the ...

The Black Thunder coal mine in Wyoming is a historical powerhouse of black energy, but it raises urgent concerns about ...

Roof bolts are either point-anchored (tensioned) or full-length anchored (non-tensioned), depending upon the application. In the United States, coal mines must be roof-bolted. Dragline excavators are ...

As coal mining operations grew bigger ... Later, the educators got to hop on to a dragline excavator, where they watched a large bucket remove several layers of soil to uncover the coal found ...

Coronado Curragh has been charged over the death of a dragline operator at one of its ... the death of a worker at its central Queensland coal mine. Clark Peadon, 54, died at the Curragh mine ...

Sixteen people have died in the coal mining industry ... died on November 21 at the Curragh Mine near Blackwater after a dragline shoe crushed him. There was another death at the Curragh Mine ...

Curragh mine worker Clark Peadon died on November 21 when he was crushed by a dragline. Picture ... in 2021 with failing to ensure the risk to coal mine workers was at an acceptable level.