NEW COAL MINE
Push-Button Operation
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright)
NOTTINGHAM, July 12.
A push-button-operated coal mine, claimed to be the world’s first, will open near Nottingham next month. \ The mine is planned to cut 1,500,000 tons of coal a year with 750 workers—trimming normal man-power by twothirds. All the 130 coal-face workers will be machine operators. Soviet and Chinese delegates to the current international mining conference in London will see the remote-control techniques at work next week.
Remote-control cutting and loading equipment will be used at all five coal-faces. Conveyors will ferry the eoal to the surface where it will be automatically processed and transferred to a 4000ton bunker for bulk loading.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30802, 14 July 1965, Page 8
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