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In longwall mining, powerful shearing machines drive back and forth across coal faces of up to 400 m in length, producing coal at rates of up to 1 t every second. What makes these impressive coal ...

Considering the implementation of passive support in advanced sections of mining roadways, which is associated with consumption of manpower and material resources and an increase in safety risk during ...