Abstract: A pick holder (110) is frictionally seated via a round cylindrical barrel (112) in a pick box of a continuous miner. A pick is in operation rotationally located in a bore (114). The bore (114), toward a rear thereof, has an internal, inwardly projecting screw thread (30). When the pick has been removed, the pick holder (110) is extracted from the pick box by screwing a screw threaded shank into the screw thread (30), and applying an extracting force via the shank and the interengaged screw threads to the pick holder (110).

Abstract: A rotary borer has a body (10) mountable on a drill steel and one or more cutting tips (30) at a front of the body (10). Each tip (30) is tapered and is frictionally received in a corresponding tapered slot (22) in the body (10). The slot (22) has a trailing, rigid anvil surface (16), which extends almost to the extremity of the tip (30) to support the tip (30) and to locate it laterally, and a leading, resilient retaining surface (20) well shy of the extremity of the tip (30) to expose a portion of the tip. The tip (30) is readily replaceable. Release of the tip can be effected by heat or by means of taper drift (38) for which a transverse hole (37) is provided proximate a bottom of the slot (22).