Jharia coalfield is one of the most important sources of coking coal in India. Coal mining activities in this coalfield have significantly caused mineralisation of surface and ground water; there-by adversely affecting it’s quality and utility. Several trace elements may be present in mine water released from various mining and processing operations. In this paper, an attempt has been made to a...

Fire experiments were conducted in the Safety Research Coal Mine (SRCM) at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Pittsburgh Research Laboratory, with coal, diesel-fuel, electricalcable, conveyor-belt, and metal-cutting fire sources to determine the response of fire sensors to productsof-combustion (POC). Metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) and smoke fire sensors demonstrated an...

The Boundary Element Method has been applied to calculate stress distribution and stability of underground mines for disposal of chemical waste. A case similar to the Stripa mine in Sweden has been considered. The rock mass was granite, with major fracture zones represented by three families of planes mutually orthogonal and 100 meters distant from each other. The pre and post processor GiD [3]...

Five mine fire experiments were conducted in a 2.08 m high and 2.90 m wide, ventilated mine entry in the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)’s Safety Research Coal Mine (SRCM) to determine the effect of the dispersion of carbon monoxide (CO) on mine fire detection. CO measurements were made at distances from 7.6 m to 45.2 m downwind from the fire with diffusion mode CO...

A new type of cosmic-ray experiment is under construction in the Pyhäsalmi mine in the underground laboratory of the University of Oulu, Finland. It aims to study the composition of cosmic rays at and above the knee region. The experiment, called EMMA, will cover approximately 150 m of detector area. The array is capable of measuring the multiplicity and the lateral distribution of underground ...

The purpose of this paper is to describe a feasibility prototype of a Computer-Aided Instruction (CAI) system, developed for mining engineering students and mine and safety personnel to teach the complex interrelationships between a mine ventilation system and a mine fire. The system employs an artificial intelligence technique to increase students' involvement in the learning process of "inter...

The mine ventilation optimization and airflow control are the mine ventilation system's two important aspects, good ventilation optimization design can deliver fresh air to establish good work environment and provide a scientific and reliable basis to prevent disaster. Based on the air distribution request of the mine ventilation network, carries on the optimized computation to the mine ventila...

Background The Sossego mine, located in Canaã dos Carajás, Pará, Brazil, has a pond of wastes with low copper concentrations economically unfeasable for extraction. In this place, we can improve environmental conditions and, at the same time, recover part of the ore diluted in these wastes, through evaluation and use of the local biodiversity, in bioremediation processes, once the use of this t...

Fire accidents inside the mine are one of the most horrifying disasters in the mining industrial field. It causes the number of casualties of the miners and the wastage of the valuable natural resources. It is the prime and primitive requirement to find out some technique or process to predict the possibility of fire so that the causes could be prevented for which the conditions of the broke ou...

Objective : The purpose of this study was to estimate the levels of Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM) in ambient air within Mukula mine and the potential risks to mineworkers and inhabitants of the adjoining Mukula community's health. Methods : An SPM was used to measure the levels of particulate matter (PM10) in and around the mining site. One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to dete...