Surface Miner - An Eco-friendly way of mining Conventional coal mining involves the process like drilling, blasting using explosives, excavating coal from giant excavators. Surface miner eliminates all of the above process and adding cherry on top it leaves crushed coal of size -100 mm eliminating the need of crushing thereby saving cost, energy and time. NCL owns four of them and has deployed them in its Jayant, Dudhichua and Krishnashila Mines. In last fiscal, about 9 Million Tonnes of coal wa

🚧 The drill and blast method in surface mining is a sequential process used to break rock into manageable fragments. It begins with drilling a pattern of holes into the rock face, followed by loading the holes with explosive charges and stemming them with inert material to confine the blast energy. The holes are then detonated in a controlled sequence to fragment the rock for removal. After blasting, the broken material is excavated using loaders and haul trucks and transported for processing o