Extracting material underground or from the surface is the core function of our drum cutter equipment. No matter which material, our flexible cutter heads and pick sets for different applications, gets your jobsite going. Easy to handle, easy to position and with a high degree of exactness in the result.
Mining is the process of extracting buried material below the earth surface. Quarrying refers to extracting materials directly from the surface.
A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The word quarry can also include the underground quarrying for stone, such as Bath stone.
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit. These deposits form a mineralized package that is of economic interest to the miner.