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• Technology News 535 - NIOSH Releases New Educational Video: Escape from Farmington No. 9: An Oral History
  5/1/2009 - Technology News
  Researchers with NIOSH have developed a training module to educate both new, inexperienced miners as well as veterans on important issues related to self-rescue and escape procedures.
• Escape From Farmington No. 9: An Oral History
  5/1/2009 - NIOSH/USBM numbered publications, Training materials, Videos and multimedia
  This video-based training module can be used to educate both inexperienced and veteran miners on important issues related to self-rescue and escape procedures.
• Use of Pressure Swing Adsorption Technology to Inert Sealed Mine Areas with Nitrogen
  2/1/2009 - Conference papers
  This paper describes the effort to create a reliable in-mine mobile plant for extracting nitrogen gas from the mine atmosphere. The gas produced by this novel technology can be used to create an inert environment in sealed mine areas.
• Evaluation of Smoke Detectors for Use in Underground Mines
  2/1/2009 - Conference papers
  This report describes experiments and their results in determining the responses of a prototype smoke detector and a commercially available photoelectric smoke detector to smoke particles generated from various combustion sources.
• The Status of Mine Fire Research in the United States
  9/1/2008 - Conference papers
  This paper summarizes recent accomplishments in a research program that is addressing mine fire prevention, detection, management, and suppression, and provides an overview of the next phase of the NIOSH mine fire research program.
• Diagnosing and Controlling Moisture-Sensitive Roof in Coal Mines
  1/1/2008 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  Moisture-sensitive roof rocks have contributed to time-dependent roof falls. NIOSH research proves the value of a wet/dry cycling test for rock evaluation.
• Guidelines for the Development of a New Miner Training Curriculum
  1/1/2008 - Information Circulars, Safety guidelines, tips, and checklists
  This report is intended to help mine safety trainers better prepare to teach new underground coal miners. It identifies 2 different approaches to instruction, i.e. using a syllabus or using a curriculum, and discusses their pros and cons.
• Final Report of the Technical Study Panel on the Utilization of Belt Air and the Composition and Fire Retardant Properties of Belt Materials in Underground Coal Mining
  12/1/2007 - Unpublished documents and reports
  This final report was prepared by the Technical Study Panel on the Utilization of Belt Air and the Composition and Fire Retardant Properties of Belt Materials in Underground Coal Mining. It provides a review and recommendations concerning the utilizatio...
• Technology News 526 - Proceedings of the International Workshop on Rock Mass Classification in Underground Mining
  7/1/2007 - Technology News
  The International Workshop on Rock Mass Classification in Underground Mining provided a forum for leading practitioners of rock mass classification from around the world to come together and share their methods and experiences with the technique.
• Proceedings of the International Workshop on Rock Mass Classification in Underground Mining
  5/1/2007 - Information Circulars
  The goal of the workshop was to allow leading practitioners of rock mass classification to share their experiences with the technique. The proceedings contain 16 papers from 9 countries. Applications in both hard-rock and coal mining are represented.