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• Silica Adds to Respirable Dust Concerns: What If You Could Know the Silica Dust Levels in a Coal Mine After Every Shift?
  1/1/2016 - Non-peer reviewed journal articles
  This trade publication by NIOSH discusses how respirable silica dust complicates the already complex issue of keeping dust levels low in underground coal mines, and how knowing silica dust levels quickly would help mines keep workers safer.
• Analysis of the Silica Percent in Airborne Respirable Mine Dust Samples from U.S. Operations
  2/1/2014 - Book chapters, Peer reviewed journal articles
  A journal article presenting an analysis of the % of silica in dust samples for the U.S. mining industry collected from 1997 to 2011.
• Deposition Uniformity of Coal Dust on Filters and its Effect on the Accuracy of FTIR Analyses for Silica
  7/1/2013 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  A study investigating a FTIR method for end-of-shift silica measurement on filter samples that assesses the influence of radial deposition uniformity on the accuracy of the method.
• Best Practices for Controlling Respirable Dust in Coal Mines
  9/7/2012 - Conferences, workshops, and seminars, Presentations, Videos and multimedia
  NIOSH OMSHR hosted a series of workshops on controlling respirable dust with practical control technologies and techniques.
• Mine Aerosol Measurement
  9/1/2001 - Book chapters
  A summary of aerosol measurement technology currently used in the U.S. mining industry as it relates to regulation, research and personal exposure monitoring.
• Control of Respirable Dust
  2/1/2001 - Book chapters
  A study of dust control technology and practices to reduce the occurrence of lung diseases in miners.
• Silica...It's Not Just Dust
  1/1/1997 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications
  This pamphlet provided information on what rock drillers can do to protect themselves from silica dust, which may cause silicosis. The role of exposure to silica dust in the development silicosis was discussed.