Originally presented at Longwall USA 2005. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has been studying their operational aspects with regard to dust control performance. This research has shown that dust control performance is highly dependent upon engineering control application parameters. This paper discusses these optimal control parameters observed from numerous NIOSH laboratory and field studies.
Originally presented at Longwall USA 2005, this presentation explores the uncertainty for coal development opportuniti ...View more
Timely and rapid intervention to underground combustion events (fires, explosions, and spontaneous combustion) is the k ...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
