
Glossary of coal mining terminology - Wikipedia
Coal (or a colliery) is said to be won when it is made accessible for exploitation; winning comprehends boring for coal, sinking the shafts, excavations, and the actual procuring of coal …
glossarymain - Welsh coal mines
Stent or Stint. The coalface would be divided into sections (stents) of about 8 to 10 yards in length, e.g. a coalface 150 yards long would have 15 to 18 stents. A collier would work his …
Trail05-12-Coal Cutter | MyTrail
The combination of coal cutters and stint belts, resulted in specialised shifts and 24 hour operations at the coalface. Prep Shift: Cutting the coal, boring and firing; Production Shift: Coal …
Definition of stint - mindat.org
A fixed work target on the coalface that every collier is expected to do in one shift or a single week. In longwall conveyor work, it is the length, area, or volume of face that the miner …
Durham Mining Museum - Job Breakdown Sheets
Fill coal by working along the buttock, i.e., filling the coal on to the conveyor from a position under the newly set bars (straps). Set props and bars (straps) as soon as enough coal has been …
The 10 Largest Coal Mines in the World - WorldAtlas
2024年7月14日 · That said, the following are the ten largest coal mines worldwide. 1. Black Thunder Mine, United States. Black Thunder Mine, in the Southern Powder River Basin of …
Pit Talk: the secret coal mine language that’s now going extinct
2018年9月6日 · Leicestershire’s mines were geographically separate from the rest of the East Midlands coalfield and miners there reported using unique words such as “ringer” (a crowbar) …
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5 天之前 · Warrior Met Coal miners during their 2021-23 strike in Brookwood, ... Palmer, since his first stint as head of MSHA, advertises he was descended from generations of miners, …
Definition of coal clearing - mindat.org
The loading of broken coal at the face into conveyors or mine cars. The clearing shift is the coal-loading shift or stint. Usually the miner has a measured task or stint (stent).
Ten year stint - Semantic Scholar
This article examines managerial ideology and identity in the nationalised British coal industry. On nationalisation in 1947, the National Coal Board (NCB) – after 1987 the British Coal …