The text will concentrate on exploration equipment. The exploration evaluates and the equipment which are applied underground also changes. Unfortunately, the fundamental equipment can be seen at mine (mining machine) areas’ coat of arms.

It is clear that each region has its own coat of arms, but all of them posses 1, frequent icon – it is hammer and pick. (roof bolter 260) The symbol shown all mining people.
The pick is a tool made use of to destroy the larger portion of rock. Thanks to the pick, the miner can pre-crushing stone and later, it can be eliminated, for example by using a spade. The picks are made use of in mining and quarrying. The pick consists of an elongated blade and often curved wedge, situated in the end of a wooden handle. Occasionally, the pick possess 2 blades on both sides of the shaft.
In mining are used another sorts of picks. The heavier picks are made use of to pull the soft and medium hard stones directly and less heavy picks are made use of to carry notches. Many picks posses changeable blades. Others posses blade, which can be used also as a hammer.
During the mining progression, the hammer and pick have been substituted by contemporary equipment. (minemaster) Today the mining tools (mine machine) are less dangerous and do not demand so much physical work. There are progressively equipments, which are controlled remotely, and the pick and hammer turned out to be symbols of mining.