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Surface miners replace drilling and blasting at Indian mine

The mine could cut up to 1800 short tons of coal per hour with one Wirtgen surface miner.

Lou Caruana
Bhubaneswari Coal Mines is using seven Wirtgen 220 SM3.8 surface miners, which specialise in soft rock mining, in one of the country’s largest coal mines.

Bhubaneswari Coal Mines is using seven Wirtgen 220 SM3.8 surface miners, which specialise in soft rock mining, in one of the country’s largest coal mines.

At the open-cut mine, the company refrains from blasting and drilling - instead relying on cutting the soft rock. BCML vice president Bairagi Sahu said the mine could cut up to 1800 short tons of coal...

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