Longwall mining has existed in Utah for more than half a century.Much of this mining occurred at depths of cover that significantly exceed those encountered by most other US longwall operations.Deep cover causes high ...
The authors would like to thanks to Steve Berry at Montana Tech for his working on the lab testing.
This paper was developed as part of an effort by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health(NIOSH)to identify risk factors associated with bumps in the prevention of fatalities and accidents in highly s...
Financial support by the National Institute of Safety and Health under Contract 200-2016-90240, MIS Analysis and DINSAR Measurements-Tools for Improving Mine Ground Control Safety is gratefully acknowledged
Quantitative analysis of mine-wide subsidence at the kilometer scale and details of stress distribution about an advancing longwall face are estimated using an adaptation of the finite element method. The method is we...
Funding for this research was provided by the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety(NIOSH)
Differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar(DIn SAR), a satellite-based remote sensing technique, has potential application for measuring mine subsidence on a regional scale with high spatial and temporal re...