What happened to the TSM

Journal Article · Tue Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1983 · Coal Age; (United States)

OSTI ID:6943496

Brezovec, D

A new coal mining machine that was going to pull some 40 million tons of coal from the Appalachian coalfields by 1986 has had more than its share of start-up problems. The machine, known as the Thin Seam Miner (TSM), is a $2.7-million auger-type mining machine that is designed to bore 220 ft into new or abandoned highwalls (CA 5/82 p. 106). Gamma-ray sensors located near the continuous drum miner-type cutter head monitor for rock and other sensors monitor for methane. The machines are designed to produce about 425 tons per shift from a 36-in.-thick coal seam. The machines were introduced officially to the American coal industry at a luncheon Aug. 19, 1981, in a ballroom at the Lexington, Ky., Hyatt Regency Hotel. At the luncheon, some 200 coal industry executives and others sipped champagne and listened to glowing reports of how 24 of the machines would produce 2.2 million tons of coal by the end of 1981 and 64 of the machines would produce 6.6 million tons by the end of 1982. The machines would be built in Holland by RijnSchelde-Verolme (RSV), a major Dutch shipbuilder, and managed in the United States by Advanced Coal Management (ACM), a company formed for the purpose by James D. Stacy, a colorful, cigar-smoking stock car owner whose experience in the coal business dated from only the mid-1970s.

• OSTI ID: 6943496
• Journal Information: Coal Age; (United States), Journal Name: Coal Age; (United States) Vol. 88:11; ISSN COLAA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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