Overview
Contacts
Coal
Method
Overview
First Workings
Traditional Pillar Extraction
Open Ended Lifting
Split and Lift
Thick Seam Mining
Panel and Pillar Extraction
Old Ben System
Wongawilli
Modern Pillar Extraction
Modified Split and Lift
Modified Wongawilli
Longwall Mining
Equipment
Overview
Continuous Miner
Shuttle Car
Bolter
Breaker Line Support (BLS)
Conveyor Belt
Ancillary Equipment
Ground Control
Overview
Ventilation
Overview
Systems
Dust Control
Auxiliary Ventilation
Spontaneous Combustion
Links
UOW
Outbursts
Longwall Mining
University of Wollongong Home
International Longwall News
Aachen Technical University, Germany
Department of Mineral Resources
NIOSH
Coal Services NSW
History of Illawarra Coal
DBT Mining
Equipment Overview
Above: Joy Mining Machinery, 12CM27 Continuous Miner
