Mining Report Issue 5/2014

Cover Story: The cover page shows the Cat GH1600 Plow System.

The same model was used at a Polish coal mine to set plow-equipped longwall production records in 2012, when the automated plow system achieved almost 25,000 t daily production from a single face. (Photo: Cat)

Table of content Mining Report 5/2014:

• State of mine rescue
• Heading in squeezing rock
• Raw materials efficiency in mining
• Chinese coal mining
• More than 100 years of GDMB
• Reducing Europe’s dependence on energy imports