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British Heritage
July 15, 2004
Judy P. Sopronyi |
The Tynewydd Colliery Disaster The heroes of this 1877 mining disaster in Wales worked doggedly to free their coworkers trapped deep below the surface in rising flood waters.   |
Geotimes
April 2006
Robert Ferriter |
Digging Into Coal Mining Safety We owe the men and women who labor deep below ground and who risk their lives to provide our quality of life the best equipment, the best technology, the best training and the safest work environment our resources can provide. |
IndustryWeek
August 19, 2009
Jonathan Katz |
L-3's Underground Safety Net Mine safety enters the 21st century with wireless communications. |
Geotimes
December 2007
George Luxbacher |
Underground Coal Mining Health and Safety: A View From the Inside Only through health and safety research programs, strong university programs in mining engineering and committed graduates will we push coal technology boundaries forward. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2010
Willie D. Jones |
Technology to Talk to Trapped Miners Four years after a series of mine collapses, technologies to help trapped miners are almost here |
Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Carl Hoffman |
High-Tech Mining Makes Coal King of Fossil Fuels, But Is It Clean? The abundance of coal and new mining technology will make this the fuel of choice for power plants for years to come. |
AboutSafety
April 28, 2002 |
Digging For Answers Despite the headlines, union action and public outcry, there has been little improvement in the numbers of deaths and injuries in the mining sector... |
Geotimes
August 2003
Tim Palucka |
Robot maps coal mine in 3-D In July 2002, the Quecreek mine accident in Pennsylvania revealed the deficiencies of outdated 2-D mine maps. If a new 3-D mapping robot now deployed emerges at the other end of a Pennsylvania coal mine, it will be a new era for mapping the underground world. |
The Motley Fool
October 26, 2010
Christopher Barker |
Why Mining Fortunes Are Yet to Be Made As a group, miners have scarcely begun to adapt to growing market demand. |
Inc.
November 2008
April Joyner |
InSeT Plans to Make Mines Safer. InSeT proposes a wireless radio network to pinpoint trapped miners. Given the recent regulation for mines to install tracking systems, this product has the potential to sale at a high price. But will it stay at that high of a price? |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2010
Christopher Barker |
Take a Western Migration to Coal Near-term difficulties in Appalachia persist. |
Science News
April 28, 2007 |
Timeline: From the April 24, 1937, issue Mystery mine in Blue Ridge revealed as U.S. test tunnel... Major forward step made toward chlorophyll synthesis... |
