The need to collect representative samples of coal from situations where cumbersome mechanical samplers are not practical is met with Mineral Labs coal auger sampling systems. These units allow samples to be collected from railcars or trucks allowing the return to reject back into the truck or railcar being sampled. Mineral Labs Inc. Coal auger sampling offers fast cycle times of less than a minute, large numbers of trucks can be sampled in a normal shift. Mineral Labs has numerous units in the field at utilities, preparation plants, and barge load out facilities where auger samplers have become a valuable part of quality control.