A jaw crusher uses comprehensive force where the materials are allowed into a gap at the top of the machine, between the two jaws. In this machine, one jaw is fixed while the other one reciprocates with back and forth movement.  A jaw crusher can work on a range of stones from softer (like limestone) to harder options (like granite and basalt). At the same time, a cone crusher breaks larger pieces of ore into smaller particles that fall to a lower position where they are crushed into smaller pieces again. Here the ore is continuously crushed until it becomes small enough o move through a narrow opening located at the bottom of the crusher.