Whether continuous mining can be adopted in opencast mining mainly depends on type and feature of materials. For floppy topsoil, bucket digging technology equipped with belt conveying system can be adopted which makes continuous mining take good effects. For hard stones, these raw materials should be crushed firstly and then it will make later continuous mining easier.

Crushers include stationary crusher and mobile crusher. With mining machinery develops rapidly, mobile crusher can be moved by multiwheel trailer or tracked carrier. This working process is that raw materials are put on heavy-duty truck by single bucket excavator, and then materials will be sent to mobile crusher for crushing. Besides, the mobile crushing plant can be moved when mining face moves.

Liming Heavy Industry researched and produced Crawler type Mobile Crushing Plant to crush materials. Not only dose it realize continuous mining, but also it provides the best economic operation model for opencast mining.