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03 Comment
05 Coal News
12 Industry View: The Most Expensive Marketing Gimic
Russell Taylor.
84 Suppliers Round-Up
Regional Report: South Africa
14 Throwing It Away?
Barry Baxter reports on South Africa’s coal industry.
Underground Personnel Transportation
22 Tough Enough
Phil Howell, Classic Motors, USA.
27 The Evolution Of The Underground Personnel Carrier
Michael White, Brookville Equipment Corp., USA.
31 Steering The Way
Radosław Michalak, FAMUR, Poland.
Roof Bolting
37 Skills And Safety
Hugh Pines, ThoroughTec Simulation, South Africa.
Mining Trucks
42 A Match Made In Mining
Josh Swank, Philippi-Hagenbuch Inc., USA.
47 The Creation Of Monster Mining Trucks
Peter De Clerk, Siemens.
51 Pristine Clean Diesel
Scott Grossbauer, Donaldson Co. Inc., USA.
Coal Loading & Unloading
55 Which Unloading System?
David Phillips, Heyl & Patterson Inc., USA.
60 Clever Gripping
Phillipp Helberg, Liebherr-Werk Nenzing, Austria.
Coal Dewatering
67 Assessing Hyperbaric Disc Filtration
R. Drummond, W. Mackinnon and C. Sorensen,
QCC Resources Pty Ltd, Australia.
75 Why Tailings Aren’t Boring
Scott O’Brien, McLanahan, USA.
Mine Water Management
80 Building Water Resilience
Ritva Muhlbauer and Nikki Fisher, Anglo American Coal.
