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3/1/2010 - Conference papersThe authors' goal is to summarize the totality of the USBM's explosives and blasting research.
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1/1/1998 - Videos and multimediaThis video teaches new miners basic safety rules to keep from hurting themselves or others while handling explosives.
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9/1/1997 - Conference papersThe research reported here is an attempt to quantify the fire protection offered by four inches of red oak and other materials.
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1/1/1992 - Reports of InvestigationsThe Bureau of Mines conducted experiments for predicting materials' ease of combustion (smoldering onset, smoldering, flaming, and decomposition rates) by means of sub micrometer smoke particle characteristics of the development of a simple test method.
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1/1/1989 - Reports of InvestigationsThe U.S. Bureau of Mines and the United States Steel Corporation evaluated the progress of methane drainage at the Oak Grove, Alabama, degasification pattern. Coalbed pressures were monitored between December 1981 and November 1985.
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9/1/1985 - Contract reportsPresents the preliminary safe distances for blasting wiring from typical electromagnetic sources. The distances are for underground coal mines and electromagnetic sources in the frequency range below 10 mhz.
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9/1/1983 - Contract reportsThe use of electromagnetic field producing equipment in underground coal mining operations can only be expected to grow. The use of these equipment in underground mining operations is hampered by the possibility of their electromagnetic fields interacti...
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1/1/1911 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publicationsAn archived publication from the early days of the U.S. Bureau of Mines. This little book on explosives is published in the hope that it may aid in preventing accidents resulting from the improper use of explosives in mining.
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Content source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Mining Program