Development of an Underground Automated Thin-Seam Coal Mining Method
It is predicted that coal mining in Southwest Virginia, and the economic stability that it brings to the area, will continue to decline over the next decade unless an environmentally sound, and economically viable means can be found to extract seams of high quality coal in the thickness range of 14...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32935 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-051799-161442/ |