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• Advanced Strategies for Controlling Exposures to Diesel Aerosols
  12/27/2023 - Research projects
  A project to develop and implement workplace solutions to reduce miners’ overexposure to hazardous airborne contaminants emitted from diesel-powered equipment.
• Understanding Elongate Mineral Particle Exposure in Mining
  12/19/2023 - Research projects
  A project to facilitate monitoring efforts by establishing a common language around the definition of elongate mineral particle and a common measurement and analytical protocol to be used by industry, academia, and government.
• Characterizing the Generation and Mitigation of Hazardous Gases during Lithium-ion Battery Failure Events
  11/21/2023 - Research projects
  A project to characterize gas generation from lithium-ion batteries used in battery electric vehicles during a battery failure event and identify mitigation strategies that can reduce gas hazards and protect U.S. mineworkers.
• Evaluating and Developing Emerging Technologies to Improve Conveyor System Safety
  7/11/2023 - Research projects
  A project to develop interventions to reduce traumatic injuries and fatalities that occur during operation and maintenance activities on conveyors.
• Characterization of Forms of Silica with Varying Degrees of Crystallinity in Respirable Dust to Assess their Effects on Miners’ Pneumoconiosis
  7/4/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to evaluate different forms of silica embedded in the mine-emitted dusts and how they are related to their host rocks’ mineralogical and geological features. 
• Investigation of Respirable Mine Dust and Crystalline Silica Dust Characteristics and Toxicity in Metal/Nonmetal Mines
  7/4/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to investigate mine dust and respirable crystalline silica characteristics and toxicity to fill a critical knowledge gap and help ensure the health of  workers in metal and nonmetal mines.
• Size-dependent Metric Analysis of Respirable Coal Mine Dust (RCMD)
  7/4/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to provide metric analysis of dust particles collected by continuous personal dust monitor devices, which will result in useful information on dust compositions at various underground coal mines.
• Advancing the Understanding of Respirable Silica Occurrence in Coal Mines
  6/28/2023 - Contracts and cooperative agreements
  A contract to explore disease pathology and help pinpoint causal respirable silica dust characteristics.
• Development of an Aerosol Sampler for a Wearable Respirable Crystalline Silica Monitor
  5/4/2023 - Research projects
  A pilot project to develop an aerosol sampler for a wearable crystalline silica monitor.
• Analytical Enhancement of Rapid Quartz Analysis
  4/25/2023 - Research projects
  A project to improve both the analytical accuracy and the usability of Rapid Quartz Analysis to increase adoption and implementation in the mining industry.