Underground coal miners may have used compressed air fed ventilation devices on longwall faces and in development headings to dilute explosive methane concentrations and prevent tripping of mining...
Category - Gas/Air Monitoring
Fifteen people were killed and nine others injured in a coal mine gas explosion in northern China’s Shanxi Province, local authorities said Tuesday. Investigation showed that 35 miners were...
Four mine workers have been killed in an underground coal mine explosion in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A further two mine workers have been recovered from the mine alive...
Peabody Energy’s Metropolitan Colliery gas incident preliminary report has been released by the NSW Regulator. The gas incident, which occurred on the 21st March 2019 at the Metropolitan...
The NSW Resources Regulator will lead a causal investigation into a mine gas incident at Metropolitan Coal Mine, where workers were withdrawn from the underground coal mine after carbon dioxide and...
A gas explosion has killed at least five people and more than twenty are missing in a disused South African coal mine. The incident occurred in South Africa’s eastern province of Mpumalanga...
Another Queensland coal worker has been diagnosed with coal worker’s pneumoconiosis, bringing the number of confirmed cases to seven. Natural Resources and Mines Minister Anthony Lynham told...
QCLNG workers on Curtis Island, near Gladstone, where forced to spend yesterday morning holed up in their crib rooms after a monitor detected a vapour leak from one of the project’s massive LNG...
Workers at Linc Energy’s underground coal gasification plant near Chinchilla in Queensland were allegedly exposed to dangerous gases over several years, according to the ABC. The public broadcaster...
INNOVATE, BUT DON’T MAKE A MISTAKE! Imagine I want to create a business with a culture of innovation to stay ahead of the pack and to continue to provide value to shareholders. However, in...
Leaking radon from abandoned Soviet-era uranium mines has been discovered as the cause of a mysterious sleeping sickness that had been puzzling doctors for months. According to the Daily Mail...
University researchers say they have developed new technology that could could make smoke detectors far more sensitive to dangerous smoke than those currently on the market. Photoelectric smoke...
