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1/10/2016 - News and announcementsMeet Dr. Eric A. Lutz, the new Director of OMSHR's Spokane Mining Research Division.
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7/17/2014 - Contracts and cooperative agreementsA capacity-building contract to address ground control design issues in weak rock masses in Nevada.
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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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7/1/2009 - Conference papersAs part of an effort to obtain more field data on longwall tailgate and support interaction, a study was conducted at a longwall mine in the Herrin No. 6 coal seam in southern Illinois.
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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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1/1/2009 - Historical information, PublicationsNIOSH researchers reviewed mining fatality surveillance data from the period 1900-2006, and using MSHA reports collected additional data on the deaths and circumstances associated with the Sago, Alma, and Darby incidents. They also reviewed published ma...
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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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Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program