Advances in coal mining technology ScienceDirect
Jan 01, 2013#0183;#32; Underground mining. Underground mining in turn is classified according to how access to the coal is accomplished. Thus, an underground mine can be a drift mine, where access is bored horizontally from the surface to the deposit, such as the side of a mountain; a slope mine where the shaft angles downward, usually following the downward slope of the deposit; and where a shaft