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Prior to 1842, horses were most often used outside of mines to help raise the coal up through the shafts, often with the aid of horse gins such as this.
One of the problems that has consistently plagued underground coal mining lies in the height of the coal seam that is being mined. This was the portal (i.e. entrance) to a coal mine that we once ran a research project in,...
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