Appendix F: Underground Coal Mining Methods and Engineering Dust ...
FIGURE F1 Schematic of a roomandpillar coal mine section. SOURCE: Arch Coal, Inc., 2012. FIGURE F2 Details of the longwall face. SOURCE: EIA, 1995. There are several variations of each method. However, ever since the introduction of continuous miners in the late 1940s, roomandpillar continuous mining has been gaining ground over conventional roomandpillar mining.