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• Monitoring and Removal of CO in Blasting Operations
  12/1/2008 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  This paper discusses methods of preventing CO migration, lessening migrated CO, and detecting CO in underground enclosed spaces and may help reduce exposure of area residents to CO and help prevent unnecessary regulations and blasting limitations.
• Roof Monitoring Helps Prevent Injuries in Stone Mines
  11/1/2000 - Peer reviewed journal articles
  The Roof Monitoring Safety System (RMSS) is described, compared to other roof-monitoring technology, and described in context with proactive ground control plans for stone mines.
• Technology News 475 - Roof Monitoring Safety System for Underground Stone Mines
  8/1/1998 - Technology News
  The Roof Monitoring Safety System (RMSS) provides a safer, simple, and inexpensive means for measuring roof movement; its use in underground stone mines is described.
• Optically Powered Remote Gas Monitor
  1/1/1995 - Reports of Investigations
  Many mines rely on toxic gas sensors to help maintain a safe and healthy work environment. This report describes a prototype monitoring system developed by the USBM that uses light to power and communicate with remote toxic gas sensors.
• Remote Fiber-Optic Methane Monitor
  1/1/1992 - Reports of Investigations
  Reports on the U.S. Bureau of Mines development and testing of an instrinsically safe methane monitor based on differential absorption of infrared light.
• Mine Slope and Subsidence Monitoring Partnership
  6/13/2024
  A partnership between the NIOSH Mining Program and its stakeholders to investigate the use of existing stability/subsidence monitoring technologies.
• Advancing Exposure Monitoring for Airborne Particulates in Mining
  1/18/2023 - Research projects
  A project to design, validate, and promote the use of advancements in monitoring the exposure of miners to respirable dust, respirable crystalline silica, and diesel particulate matter.
• Develop Portable DPM Monitor
  1/10/2023 - Research projects
  A project to investigate the feasibility of using alternative measurement approaches to quantify both elemental carbon and organic carbon in filter samples of mine air.
• Multivariable Gas Sensors for Personal Monitoring of Breathable Air
  1/18/2022 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to create a personal air monitor combining multiple sensing technologies.
• Evaluation of Methods to Inform Development of a Near Real-time Monitor for Measuring and Reducing RCS Exposures in Non-coal Mines
  9/18/2020 - Research projects
  A project to develop novel and improved monitoring solutions for respirable crystalline silica that can be commercialized and subsequently provided to mine operators for the assessment of hazardous conditions in the field.