A coal mine maintenance supervisor working underground ... A maintenance team was trying to repair a roof bolter that wouldn’t start. CONSOL spokeswoman Cathy St. Clair confirmed that a ...

Owing to its notable success and an overwhelming demand from host communities in and around Piet Retief, in Mpumalanga, the ...

Citing a “national energy emergency,” the federal government gave a green light Friday to a long-delayed expansion of Signal ...

Mining machine manufacturer Mining Maintenance ... such as complete underground roof bolters, feeder breakers and mechanical parts, to complete management of overland conveyor systems including ...

If a roof bolter did not secure the overhead safety jacks ... Whatever pride once seemed synonymous with coal mining has now withered away to shame. Reforms and regulations to reduce the environmental ...

Yet a third was a 62-year-old roof bolter who worked underground for 8 years ... It’s caused by the long-term inhalation of coal dust in underground and surface coal mines, and has killed an estimated ...

Roof support is one of the most important tasks ... says Bruno Reumueller, VP Underground Coal and Minerals, Mechanical Cutting, Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology. Mining news and in-depth feature ...

designed to meet a variety of specific mining needs. Fletcher roof bolters are accompanied with an entire line of machinery, including coal, industrial mineral, metal and construction equipment.

After coal is removed in an underground mine, roof bolters use machines to insert long bolts as roof supports into the rock above the coal seam. These supports are designed to prevent the rock ...

a CDDR roof bolter. Jarrod Hanns, Motion’s branch manager for the Unanderra operations, and his team recently accomplished a “re-overhaul” for the CDDR deployed in a Hunter Valley coal mine.