The type of equipment used in mining are: mining drills, blasting tools, earth movers, crushing equipment and feeding, conveying and on - line elemental Analysing equipments. The modern equipments are categorized into 3.
1. Surface mining equipment: blast hole drills, dozens, shovels, deadlines, loaders, haul trucks, graders, highwall miners.
2. Underground mining equipment: rock dusters, long wall machines, roof boaters, shuttle cars, ventilation fans, personnel vehicles and scoops.
3. Mining transportation and tools of coal preparation: trucks, barge, rail roads.