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monorail
A relatively new underground transport system in which the carriages, or buckets, are suspended from, and run along, a single continuous overhead rail or taut wire rope. The monorail is used in coal mines to transport supplies to the workings. It may be installed alongside the gate conveyor and worked by endless or main rope.
- Kalbos dalis: noun
- Pramonės šaka / sritis: Mining
- Category: General mining; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
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