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10/1/2009 - Peer reviewed journal articlesInstruments remaining in a test section of a lead/zinc/copper room and pillar mine where pillar mining had taken place 14 years before were read to monitor long-term stability and quantify time dependent behavior in the mine roof and backfill.
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2/1/2007 - Peer reviewed journal articlesA study of ground behavior, reinforcement performance and stress redistribution looked at a longwall tailgate under severe horizontal stress. Comparison to field results showed that a FLAC-2D model captured the significant roof and support behavior.
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8/1/2013 - Peer reviewed journal articlesAn article examining the approach of using time-lapse methods to analyze the methane degasification of a group of coal mine seams in Alabama.
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7/1/2013 - Peer reviewed journal articlesAn article detailing the extent to which it can be estimated that boreholes helped to degasify the Blue Creek coal seam in Alabama in advance of mining the seam.
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7/1/2012 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThe mining industry and labor stakeholders together requested that the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) examine this issue, with the ultimate aim of reducing the rate of pneumoconiosis among U.S. coal miners.
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10/1/2009 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis study presents the results of core-log analyses from the exploration boreholes, the analyses of face advance rates, and the results of downhole monitoring studies performed in gob gas ventholes.
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3/1/2009 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis study presents reservoir and elastic properties of coal measure rocks in the Lower Monongahela Group in Greene County, southwestern Pennsylvania, with results that can be used as data sources for reservoir studies related to methane control.
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12/1/2008 - Peer reviewed journal articlesNIOSH has been actively gathering ground control information in the Illinois Basin in an effort to understand and control difficult mining conditions and has documented best practices for screen installation.
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10/1/2003 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThis study evaluated two training techniques for educating young children about noise and hearing loss.
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1/1/1998 - Peer reviewed journal articlesThe Coeur d'Alene Mining District of northern Idaho is remarkable for its number of large ore bodies and for the amount of its historical production of lead, zinc and silver. Since veins were first discovered in 1884, more than 127 Mt (140 million st) o...
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Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program