: The Continuous Mining Machine | GEOG 000 John A. Dutton e ...
: The Continuous Mining Machine. A picture is worth a thousand words. so, let's look at the front of a continuous miner. The cutting drum is about 2' in diameter and perhaps 12' wide. It is laced with carbide cutting bits, and the drum rotates at about 1 revolution per second. The cutting head is sumped into the top of the seam ...