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Explosives blast rocks and ores loose in mines and quarries. They also move great masses of earth and break coal into small pieces. There are three basic types of explosive mechanical nuclear and chemical. A mechanical explosive depends on a physical reaction such
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Larry Wilson Group technical manager Research and Development at AEL Mining Services discusses the realities and facts of hot hole blasting. "Smouldering or burning coal deposits represent a serious problem in operations associated with the surface mining of underground coal seams.
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Three days before the blast an inspector touring the 4 Section found holes in the walls of the ventilation system as well as coal dust stretching more than 1 000 feet down the corridors.
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pushes the primer into the hole shoves a tamping dummy on top and runs. Sometimes the primer sticks and the man gets caught while trying to dislodge it. One or two gas or dust explosions in coal mines have been caused by this method of blasting where the flame blew out on account of poor tampering. The writer saw a man narrowly escape death when
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Blasting of Hot HolesFree download as PDF File (.pdf) or read online for free. Because of burning of coal due to spontaneous combustion temperatures are intense in the surrounding overburden strata and in the coal seams. Under such elevated temperature condition it becomes more difficult to drill and charge the overburden above the burning coal as well as in the coal benches which are hot.
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Most countries require explosives in underground coal mines to be fired electrically but prohibit the use of aluminum-shell electric blasting caps. This is because aluminum burns with a very hot flame and is much more likely than copper to ignite coal gas. Otherwise almost all
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As a result coal mining needed larger amounts of capital as new systems of pumping ventilation and extraction required the implementation of steam power in mines. By the 1890s electric cutting machines replaced the blasting method of loosening the coal in some mines and by 1900 a quarter of American coal was mined using these methods.
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Bureau of Mines Blasting practices as they affect the roof of coal mines in Ohio Pennsylvania and West ia / ( Washington D.C. United States Bureau of Mines 1933) also by John Nicholas Geyer (page images at HathiTrust)
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DEATHTRAPCHASNALA COLLIERY JHARKAND • Located at south eastern fringe of Jharia coal field in Dhanbad • Mine owned by Indian Iron Steel Co. Ltd. (IISCO) a subsidiary of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) • Total Area of mine902 acres • Disaster happened in a new deep shaft mine in the 13/14 combined seam. • Old workings on the same 13/14 seam had a major dyke
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pushes the primer into the hole shoves a tamping dummy on top and runs. Sometimes the primer sticks and the man gets caught while trying to dislodge it. One or two gas or dust explosions in coal mines have been caused by this method of blasting where the flame blew out on account of poor tampering. The writer saw a man narrowly escape death when
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This is a collection of facts about coal-mining in this area which I have drawn together from a variety of sources and tried to summarise by reference to the particular pits involved. Other named coal mines shown on they would throw half a shovelful of hot coals from a nearby brazier down the hole and the blast would go off without
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The Life of a Coal Miner. BY REV. JOHN McDOWELL. "I m twelve years old goin on thirteen " said the boy to the boss of the breaker. He didn t look more than ten and he was only nine but the law said he must be twelve to get a job. He was one of a multitude of the 16 000 youngsters of the mines who because miners families are large and
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