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Eickhoff wins innovation prize at Bauma for underground mining machine

MINING.COM Staff Writer | May 12, 2010 | 5:25 pm

Even machines in the underground hardcoal mining industry can nowadays have ‘human’ traits. After years of development it is possible to equip a modern mining machine, a shearer loader, with intelligence. Read more at http://quarryworld.co.uk/article.php?id=7158