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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi

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To: DScottD who wrote (18578)3/7/1999 6:50:00 PM
From: BlueCrab  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
>>As part of my indoctrination I had to take a tour of an underground mine. Never was I so happy that I had a college education.<<

Most of them now have one, or the equivalent of one, with the complexity of the equipment they run. The longwall units are incredible, as are the "mine ahead" sensing units. Compare with mines in the sixties or thereabouts - half the miners, twice the production. Two of my cousins back in PA have miner husbands, both with degrees.

And that doesn't even cover the coalbed methane production.
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