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How is coal mined from the earth?

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11y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

The two commonest methods are deep pit mining or open cast mining. With deep=pit mining, shafts are dug vertically downwards, then tunnels excavated horizontally to extract the coal. With open-cast mining, the top-soil is simply scraped away, using large excavators, and the coal is transported away tpo be processed.

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