Conventional mining

Conventional mining
  The oldest form of room pillar mining, which consists of a series of operations that involve cutting the coal bed, so it breaks easily when blasted with explosives or high pressure air, and then loading the broken coal.
  U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration's Energy Glossary

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