Abstract: A continuous miner is employed in conjunction with a flume that removes the mined product from the working face. The discharge from mobile continuous miner is deposited in a sloping trough supported by the miner which is in cooperative and relatively movable engagement with the flume and the product is washed down the trough with water which forms a slurry that is transported down the flume.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method for hydraulically mining of coal. An entry is driven upwardly through a panel of coal to a predetermined terminus and a fluming system, which slopes in the same direction as the entry, is installed in the entry. A monitor is positioned in the entry and a high pressure jet of water from the monitor is employed to cut coal from the face area of the panel of coal. The cut and broken coal is then further broken with a jet of high pressure water from a second monitor positioned in the entry and located near the face area. The broken coal then is fed to the fluming system and transported through the flume with the aid of gravity as a coal-water slurry.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for hydraulically mining friable carbonaceous material such as coal or other suitable materials wherein a feeder/breaker is placed in the entry with complete mining facilities mounted on this second machine including hydraulic monitors, one for cutting material from a seam or panel and, if desired, a second monitor for breaking and flushing the mined material in the form of a slurry for transport through the machine where it is mechanically broken and crushed to predetermined size and the solids/water slurry discharged into a flume for transport from the mine.