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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Mining - Coal"”.
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Lone Star under the Rising Sun: Texas's "Lost Battalion," 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment, During World War II
… including working in industrial plants and mining coal in Japan, and most notably, constructing the infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway. During their three-and-one-half years of captivity, these prisoners experienced brutality at the hands of the Japanese. Enduring prolonged malnutrition …
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Evaluation of three carbon sources for the biological treatment of acid mine drainage through process modelling
… pollution of ground water are the industries mining coal and metalbearing sulphidic minerals, which gives rise to the production of acid mine drainage (AMO). AMO is generated from both active and abandoned mining areas. The metal sulphides in the metal tailings are oxidised to produce large …
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Carbonado: The History of a Coal Mining Town in the Foothills of Mount Rainier, 1880-1937
<p>The history of the coal mining town of Carbonado, Washington was studied. Starting from a brief description of the formation and discovery of coal in Western Washington, the fifty-seven year history of active coal mining was covered in this project. Topics included town leadership, coal mining …
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Medición de la sostenibilidad ambiental en la gestión de proyectos de minería de carbón subterráneo en la provincia de Sugamuxi del departamento de Boyacá
La minería en el departamento de Boyacá se basa en la explotación de minas y canteras, en especial la extracción de carbón subterráneo (Agencia Nacional de Minería - ANM, 2015), el desarrollo de esta actividad genera impactos relevantes en lo social, ambiental y económico, por tal razón, la …
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Microseismic Monitoring of a Room and Pillar Retreat Coal Mine in Southwest Virginia
… continuous improvement in the underground coal industry. The United States experienced over 3,300 injuries and 42 deaths between 2006 and 2012 from the fall of a roof or rib (MSHA, 2015). Out of the underground coal mining methods, room and pillar retreat mining lacks significant research …
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Appalachian Coal Miners At Greater Risk For Silica Exposure than Rocky Mountains
… estimates the effect of regional location on coal mine employee exposure to crystalline silica, and the odds of a coal workers pneumoconiosis diagnosis. </p> <p>Study Design </p> <p>The MSHA datasets cover all enforcement cases from 1970 to present, and include employee personal sampling …
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Development and Application of a Risk-Based Online Body-of-Knowledge for the U.S. Underground Coal Mining Industry: RISKGATE-US COAL
… multiple fatality events in the U.S. underground coal mining industry, such as the Upper Big Branch mine explosion, illustrates the need for improved methods of major safety hazard identification and control. While many solutions to reducing the risk of mine disasters have been proposed, including …
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Evaluation of reclaimed coal-mined prime farmland based on soil characteristics in lieu of the current yield-based approach
… the passage of Public Law 95-87, the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) in 1977, reclamation success of prime farmland after coal mining has been determined by long-term crop yield testing. States such as Illinois and Indiana require that reclamation success be based on crop …
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Risk mapping of eMalahleni municipal area with focus on coal mining impacts
Coal-mining in eMalahleni raises a number of environmental challenges, including coal fires, subsidence, acid mine drainage (AMD) and air pollution. Previous studies by a number of institutions, including the Council for Geoscience, have shown that the impact on the environment and on human health …