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Conventional mining

Term · Energy · MLC-T-ENE-000417

The oldest form of room pillar mining, which consists of a series of operations that involve cutting the coal bed, so it breaks easily when blasted with explosives or high pressure air, and then loading the broken coal.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENE-000417
FieldEnergy
SubjectCoal
ReferencesEIA Glossary
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENE-000417",
  "term": "Conventional mining",
  "field": "Energy",
  "definition": "The oldest form of room pillar mining, which consists of a series of operations that involve cutting the coal bed, so it breaks easily when blasted with explosives or high pressure air, and then loading the broken coal.",
  "subject": "Coal",
  "references": [
    "EIA Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/energy/conventional-mining/"
}

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