Roadheaders and Continuous Miners

By Greg Fenrick

Roadheader

A roadheader, also called a boom-type roadheader, road header machine, road header or just header machine, is a piece of excavating equipment consisting of a boom-mounted cutting head, a loading device usually involving a conveyor, and a crawler travelling track to move the entire machine forward into the rock face. (source: Wikipedia)

Continuous Miner

A continuous miner is a machine designed to remove coal or other soft minerals from the face and to load it into cars or conveyors continuously, without the use of cutting machines, drills, or explosives. (source: Sci-Tech Dictionary)

• Anshan Powerful Heavy Industry
• Dosco Overseas Engineering
• Eickhoff Bergbautechnik GmbH
• Fairchild International
• Industriemaschinen Bergbau Service GmbH
• Joy Mining Machinery
• Mitsui Miike
• Sandvik
• Technicore Underground Corporation
• Voestalpine
• WIRTH Group
• Yasinovatskiy Machine Building Plant

• Coal Mine Services

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