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 Post subject: Long Holing
PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:47 pm 
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Location: Within 60 Miles of the Northern Anthracite Field
the question was posed "what is longholing" well here ya go, basically you run your gangway in rock or in a paralleling vein. then you run a chute up into the next vein in rock and drill long holes up into the coal and take what you get.

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