Describes planning of coal production using ploughs, shearers and surface
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Coal in the World, Reserves, Productions, the Use of Coal in Industry and Prices 3. Coal in Turkey, Reserves, Properties, and Characteristics 4. Coal Petrology, Classification, Hardness, and Breakage Characteristics of Lithotypes 5. Physical and Mechanical Characteristics of Coal 6. Schmidt Hammer Hardness, In-Situ Strength of Coal, Cleats 7. Cutting of Coal, Coal Cutting Mechanics, Laboratory Coal Cutting Experiments 8. Coal Properties Effecting Coal Cuttability 9. Workability of Coal, Drilling and Digging/Breaking the Coal 10. Effect of Coal Cutting Methods on Final Properties of the Produced Coal that would be Relevant to Later Coal Upgrading and Utilization 11. Mechanized Underground Coal Exploitation Methods: Longwall, Room and Pillar and Shortwall 12. Cutting Coal with Plows, a Trend toward Mining Thinner Coal Seams 13. Cutting Coal with Shearers, Some Application Examples 14. Cuttability Criteria for the Use of Continuous Surface Miners and Worldwide Applications in Surface Coal Mining
