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3/30/2017 - Research projectsA project to identify and test the physiologic and environmental measurement tools and data collection instruments needed to assess heat strain among miners.
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1/1/1995 - Reports of InvestigationsThis U.S. Bureau of Mines study examined spontaneous heating episodes in coal mine pillars in an active underground coal mine. The objective of this study was to discover if the location of future events of pillar spontaneous heating could be inferred ...
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5/1/1994 - Technology NewsThe objective was to develop and demonstrate a lightweight material that has low thermal conductivity and that would be suitable for placement using shotcrete methods. This material could be applied in deep, hot mines where mine drifts must be insulate...
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1/1/1992 - Reports of InvestigationsThis report presents a Bureau of Mines study to identify the causes of self-heating events beneath the floor of a deep underground coal mine. The combined results led to the conclusion that pyrite oxidation was the prime cause of the heatings.
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Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program