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UGMiner Banks
 Post subject: CBS News video from a Bituminous mine
PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:16 am 
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Heres an interesting view into a bituminous operation. mind you, this is definitely not chucker style..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk-jrbCi ... re=related

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:07 pm 
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By the way, Mike A, notice the 80s video game controller that that "miner" is playing with? :lol:

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:17 pm 
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where's the picks, shovels and blasting powder......... all i saw was a bunch of "equipment operators" , or were they the miners :?: at least they had nice relective suits :wink:

this is how you really mine coal guys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwDw91yeDsc

:D :wink:

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I like the trailer on http://www.brodzik.com/ much better.
You have to click on the "films" link then browse through them until you get to the "Anthracite" movie link.

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Guys keep it professional ! ! !

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:13 pm 
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i was wondering how long that would take :roll:

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