Underground Mining Methods and Equipment
The most common equipment for material handling such as loading and hauling excavated ore are slushers, gatheringarm loaders, frontend loaders, overhead loaders, LoadHaulDump units (LHDs), and rubbertired shuttle cars and trucks, as well as transportation by conveyor, rail, and gravity flow. Ore is loaded into underground equipment and transferred to orepasses, wher e the ore is dumped. A