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mill
device that breaks solid materials into smaller pieces by grinding, crushing, or cutting
excavator
thumb|Hidromek excavator in [[Alicante, Spain]]
loader
heavy equipment machine
Davy lamp
safety lamp for use in flammable atmospheres
crusher
A crusher is a machine designed to reduce large rocks into smaller rocks, gravel, sand or rock dust.
minecart
thumb|A minecart from the 16th century, found in Transylvania
ball mill
Machine used to grind or blend materials
bucket-wheel excavator
continuous digging machine used especially in large-scale open-pit mining
dragline excavator
large vehicle used for lifting, especially in the process of mining: basically an excavator which drags its bucket to fill it
graduation tower
structure used in salt production which increases the concentration of a saline solution by evaporation
roadheader
thumb|250px|A typical roadheader A roadheader, also called a boom-type roadheader, road header machine, road header or just header machine, is a piece of excavating equipment consisting of a boom-mounted cutting head, a loading device usually involving a conveyor, and a crawler travelling track to move the entire machine forward into the rock face.
bucket chain excavator
a bucket excavator belongs to a group of excavators with several working elements that are structurally predestined for excavating rock mass by means of a large number of buckets that are evenly distributed on an endless chain
stamp mill
type of mill machine
Trommel screen
machine separating materials
Cable crane
safety lamp
any of several types of lamp that provides illumination in coal mines
LHD
vehicle used in underground mining
roller mill
mill that uses cylindrical rollers to crush or grind various materials
blasting machine
portable source of electric current for the detonation of an explosive
man engine
ladder-lift mechanism installed in mines
mine railway
mode of transport used to transport goods in mines
stacker
thumb|ThyssenKrupp|Krupp coal stacker featuring tripper conveyor and non-slewing, luffing boom at RTCA Kestrel Mine|300px 300px|thumb|Stacker at Garzweiler surface mine
articulated hauler
heavy-duty dump truck
mechanical screening
practice of separating granulated ore material by particle size
Big Brutus
power shovel used in southeastern Kansas strip mining
Visitor mine F60
type of overburden conveyor bridges
drilling jumbo
rock drilling machine
Raise borer
raise is a shaft in a mine which joins two levels by definition mined upwards
rocker box
gold mining equipment