Timely and rapid intervention to underground combustion events (fires, explosions, and spontaneous combustion) is the key to the successful control of the mine atmosphere and restoring of a coal mine to production. The focus of this paper is the utilization of a GAG 3A jet engine system to combat either large out-of-control fires or to render an entire mine inert when access to problem areas is difficult or impossible.
Originally presented at Longwall USA 2005, this presentation explores the uncertainty for coal development opportuniti ...View more
Originally presented at Longwall USA 2005. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has been studying their operational ...View more
The coal business finished weak in 2015 and it's off to a slow start in 2016. The information contained in the 2016 Longwall Census reflects a ma ...View more
After a period of intense mining project development, driven by increased emerging market consumption of building-block commodities such as coal, ...View more
