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03 Comment
05 Coal News
10 Industry View: Lost Leaders
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Lost Potential?
John Larpent, Stratum International, UK.
74 Suppliers Round‑Up Special: The Digital Mine
Regional Report: West Virginia
12 The View From The Mountain State
T.L. Headley reports on West Virginia’s coal industry.
Longwall Health & Safety
19 Adapting To Straitened Times
Jonathan Rowland discusses developments in longwall mining
with representatives from longwall OEMs, Joy Global and
Eickhoff, and ground control specialists, Jennmar.
23 The Changing Face Of Longwall Mining Safety
Dr Hua Guo, CSIRO, Australia.
Overland Conveying
26 Reaching New Lengths
Willem Niemandt, Sandvik Mining, South Africa.
31 Going The Full Length
David Morrison, Bechtel Mining and Metals.
35 Extending The Way For Coal
Venugopal Basker, FLSmidth Private Ltd., India, and
Dr Frederic Scholl, FLSmidth GmbH, Germany.
Breakers, Crushers & Sizers
38 Rolling Out The Choices
Geordie Edmiston, McLanahan, USA.
43 Flexible And Cost‑Effective Crushing
Peter Berlitz, ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions, Germany.
Coal Storage Facilities
49 What Lies In Store?
Mike Jakob, Trianel Kohlekraftwerk Lünen GmbH & Co. KG,
Germany, and Henri de Boer, ESI Eurosilo BV, the Netherlands.
Shaft Hoisting
55 At Your Service
Siemag Tecberg, Germany.
Global Power Market Report
60 A Brief History Of Coal
Garrick Hoops, ABB Enterprise Software, USA.
65 Clean And Dry
Charles Bullinger, Great River Energy, and Nenad Sarunac,
University of North Carolina, USA.
71 The Challenge For Coal In Europe
Dr Lesley Sloss FRSC FIEnvSci, IEA CCC, UK.
