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Mine Gases
Their Sources and Control
Presented By:
Ali Bux Wassan (12MN65)
Under kind supervision of:
Mine Dust-
Introduction:
Blasting
Mucking & Haulage
Drilling & Bolting
Ore passes
Crushers
Conveyors Systems
Backfill Process
Road Headers
Shotcreting
Fresh Intake Mine Dust
Control Measures
Respiratory Protection
Ultimately it is the objective of the safety department
to do away with mandatory respiratory protection
for all underground personnel. This will only be
possible by diligent efforts of all personnel
underground.
There are definitely in roads that need to be made.
Some of it is behavioral. Some of it is
improvement in conditions that create dust
releases. It will require everyones help & active
participations to solve.
Mine Gases
-Their sources and control
Sources of Gases
In a mine oxygen is abstracted from the air chiefly:
(a) by the gradual oxidation of coal and other
carbonaceous minerals and to a smaller degree.
(b) by the breathing of men and animals, and
(c) by the burning of lights carbon dioxide is added
by these same three processes and
(d) in some mines it is given off by the coal and
adjacent strata.