The mining industry is among the top ten industries nationwide with high occupational injury and fatality rates, and mine rescue response may be considered one of the most hazardous activities in mining operations. In the aftermath of an underground mine fire, explosion or water inundation, specially equipped and trained teams have been sent underground to fight fires, rescue entrapped miners, ...

Given the complexity and uniqueness of underground hard rock mines, application design fire scenario approach is recommended when evaluating safety in mines. Providing a full set scenarios – ensuring that several important life aspects are covered for mine can be challenging. The question whether catalogue potential clusters could developed, covering found underground? general lack research int...

According to the new classification method, salt mines and underground work or areas where methane has not been observed but for which in boreholes found rock massifs are considered be fire / mine mining work. This allows only effective of exploitation maintained wire regime, rest being non-wire. The purpose this paper is determine rate (explosive gas) carbon dioxide (oxidizing operations Tg-Oc...

Two mine-fire experiments were conducted in the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) Safety Research Coal Mine (SRCM) at the Pittsburgh Research Laboratory (PRL) which demonstrated that smoke from diesel-fuel fires of 500 kW and 660 kW heat-release rates in a return airway can develop, without causing a complete air flow reversal, into a roof layer that can migrate up...

The Altai-Sayan mining region located east of Novosibirsk, Russia, comprises over 72 mines which are located between 7 and 559 km from the International Monitoring System (IMS) primary 3-component station ZAL. We have origin time and location estimates of 853 blasts that have occurred in this trend between 1/1/1995 and 6/30/2000. The mines are known to use millisecond delay-fire blasting and ha...

Deployment of wireless sensor networks and wireless communication systems have become indispensable for better real-time data acquisition from ground monitoring devices, gas sensors, and equipment used in underground mines as well as in locating the miners, since conventional methods like use of wireline communication are rendered ineffective in the event of mine hazards such as roof-falls, fir...

In all over the world, mining is considered as a high-risk activity that is pregnant with serious disasters not only for miners, engineers, and other people into it, but also for people who live near the mines. In this article, our main purpose is to examine some major mine disasters and safety in mines and the case study is a coal mine in Turkey. Safety in mines is one of the most important is...

The paper presents a classification of fire extinguishing systems for dump trucks. principles fire-extinguishing operation are given according to the method actuation and purpose applied agents. Manufacturers mine trucks marked, technical characteristics their represented. As result research, it has been determined that main direction development is connected with class E fires, because increas...

istorically, the Navy’s mine countermeasures ships and helicopters were designed for Cold War applications, which emphasized clearance of our own ports and gave amphibious assault low priority. Today’s naval mission requires regional contingency operations where friendly forces must be capable of projecting power ashore. For example, the attempted assault of Kuwait during Desert Storm by the U....