The paper summarizes current research on abandoned underground coal mines. It forms an initial basis for developing an inventory of methane emissions from such mines. Early measurements have shown that some abandoned coal mines can liberate large volumes ...
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The paper summarizes current research on abandoned underground coal mines. t forms an initial basis for developing an inventory of methane emissions from such mines. arly measurements have shown that some abandoned coal mines can liberate large volumes of high quality gas (up to ...
EPA Science Inventory
...and reactivating of abandoned or deactivated coal mines, notification by the...and reactivating of abandoned or deactivated coal mines, notification by the...underground coal mine, and a mine which has been abandoned or deactivated...
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The study was designed to assist individuals involved with problem of abandoned mines that are subsiding. The study analyzed the practicality and desirability of using blasting to stabilize subsiding abandoned underground mines. Application of blasting to...
...MINERALS (OTHER THAN COAL) EXPLORATION AND MINING OPERATIONS Protection Against Mining Hazards § 3595.2 Abandonment of underground...abandoned and rendered inaccessible without the advance, written approval of the authorized...
The hydrologic characteristics of two abandoned underground coal mine sites, near Latrobe, PA, and Unionntown, PA, were investigated by the U.S. Bureau of Mines for possible implementation of alkaline injection into the mine pools as a means of abating th...
Strong circumstantial evidence suggests that lightning has initiated methane explosions in abandoned and sealed areas of underground coal mines. The report investigates this phenomenon.
Following a statewide survey of all Illinois lands affected by underground mining for coal, the Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale identified problem areas associated with abandoned underground mine site...
Disposal of coal combustion by-products (CCBs) in an environmentally sound manner is a major issue facing the coal and utility industries in the US today. Disposal into abandoned sections of underground coal mines may overcome many of the surface disposal...
Many coal mining companies have potential surface mine reserves which either are known or suspected to have had prior drift mining activity on them. In many cases, there is no documentation on these mines or at best, very fragmented records. These undocumented abandoned underground mines are creating engineering, financial, and ...
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...of abandoned or deactivated coal mines, notification by the...operator of a new underground coal mine, and a mine which has...reactivating the mine notify the Coal Mine Health and Safety...proposed program for searching miners for smoking materials in...
The objective of this project was to develop and demonstrate two technologies for the placement of coal combustion by-products in abandoned underground coal mines, and to assess the environmental impact of these technologies for the management of CCB mate...
In this work the author describes the use of gravel bulkheads for confining hydraulic backfilling of abandoned underground coal mines that are simply refilled or, as in the case of the Portal Park swimming pool in Colorado Springs, rebuilt in the area over the abandoned mine. Hydraulic backfilling was the void ...
...UNDER REGULATORY PROGRAMS UNDERGROUND MINING PERMIT APPLICATIONS-MINIMUM...processing waste to abandoned underground workings. (a) Each...processing waste disposal facility, including flow diagrams...method of constructing underground retaining walls,...
Mine drainage, also known as acid mine drainage, is sulfuric acid that drains from mines, especially abandoned underground coal mines such as in ...
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This paper discusses the recovery of coal from refuse piles of old, abandoned underground mines in the USA. A survey conducted by the Coal Extraction and Utilization Research Center of Southern Illinois University is analyzed. The financial opportunities such a process offers to the investor are discussed.
U.S. Bureau of Mines research to develop diagnostic methods to locate and evaluate fires in abandoned mines and waste banks and techniques to extinguish such fires was applied to an abandoned 60-acre underground bituminous coal mine (Renton, Allegheny Cou...
This paper reviews reclamation activities conducting during 1984-85 in the Big South Fork National River and Recreational Area, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Under this integrated reclamation project, four sites comprising 14 acres of highly acidic abandoned coal refuse were treated and 43 abandoned adit underground ...
At Bowden, West Virginia, a fish kill occurred in a hatchery in the spring of 1966, reportedly from acid mine drainage flushing out of several abandoned underground coal mines. The West Virginia Department of Mines air sealed several small underground min...
This project will evaluate the technical, economic and environmental feasibility of filling abandoned underground mine voids with alkaline, advanced coal combustion wastes (Fluidized Bed Combustion-FBC ash). Success will be measured in terms of technical ...
...retaining walls, influence of the backfilling operation on active underground mine operations, surface area to be supported...The applicant shall describe the source of the hydraulic transport mediums, method of dewatering the placed backfill,...
The paper summarizes current research on abandoned underground coal mines. It forms an initial basis for developing an inventory of methane emissions from such mines. Early measurements have shown that some abandoned coal mines can liberate large volumes of high quality gas (up to 750,000 cu ...
The Coal Mine Drainage Bibliography covers the following areas: surface and underground mines, active and abandoned mines, reclaimed surface mines, and planning of new mines. Also included are information on lakes formed by surface mining, drainage from c...
... COAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH MANDATORY SAFETY STANDARDS-UNDERGROUND COAL MINES Ventilation § 75.373 Reopening mines. After a mine is abandoned or declared inactive, and before it is reopened, mining operations shall not...
The study was designed to assist individuals involved with problem of abandoned mines that are subsiding. The study analyzed the practicality and desirability of using blasting to stabilize subsiding abandoned underground mines. Application of blasting to subsidence problems could provide a valuable alternative technology to classical ...
The detailed map shows locations of lignite with less than 150 feet of overburden and with 150 to 1,000 feet of overburden; subbituminous or bituminous coal with less than 150 feet of overburden and with 150 to 3,000 feet of overburden; bituminous coal with more than 3,000 feet of overburden; anthracite and semianthracite; and areas of past or present ...
water from abandoned coal mining sites. The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA lands and streams that had been damaged or degraded by past mining practices. The abandoned mine lands in abandoned underground mines is not likely to be covered under SMCRA AML restoration ...
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The proceedings of the 1984 conference on reclamation of abandoned mines includes papers on: overburden blasting to accomplish reclamation, when is a feature a hazard, numerical model of pumped slurry backfilling, blasting techniques applied to reclamation, extinguishment of waste coal fires, injecting fly ash in the underground water ...
Water from abandoned underground coal mines acidifies receiving streams in the Sugar Creek Basin and Mitchell Mine Basin near Huntsville, Missouri. A 4.35-kilometer (2.7-mile) reach of Sugar Creek has been classified as impaired based on Missouri's Water Quality Standards because of small pH values [
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Water from abandoned underground coal mines acidifies receiving streams in the Sugar Creek Basin and Mitchell Mine Basin near Huntsville, Missouri. A 4.35-kilometer (2.7-mile) reach of Sugar Creek has been classified as impaired based on Missouri's Water ...
The Coal Mine Drainage Bibliography covers the following areas: surface and underground mines, active and abandoned mines, reclaimed surface mines, and planning of new mines. Also included are information on lakes formed by surface mining, drainage from coal refuse disposal areas, and water from ...
This report is concerned with the removal of mine waste that has been deposited on the surface and its return to the mined-out area of an active or abandoned coal mine. Emphasis is therefore on the bulk handling systems suitable for large volumes of waste...
A test plan was developed to provide the basis for field measurements of the thermal resource associated with the waters of flooded, abandoned coal mines in Scranton, Pennsylvania. These waters provide a potential resource for a district heating and cooli...
The Bureau of Mines conducted a field investigation of the water quality in inundated underground coal mines in the Northern Anthracite Field, eastern Pennsylvania. Water samples were collected at multiple depths from nine abandoned mine shafts in the Wyo...
Foaming Mud Cement (FMC) is a class of materials related to cellular cement studied and developed for the purpose of addressing Abandoned Mine Land problems. During the 2-year program, significant advances were made using a specific methodology that properly employed will enable the successful termination of many surface and underground ...
Resembling a cross between an underground continuous miner and a surface augering machine, the Thin Seam Miner (TSM) is able to bore into coal seams from new or abandoned highwalls to distances of 220 ft. This ability, enhanced by the incorporation of natural-radiation sensors, allows a TSM to recover 80% to 85% of ...
The Coal Mine Drainage Bibliography covers the following areas: surface and underground mines, active and abandoned mines, reclaimed surface mines, and planning of new mines. Also included are information on lakes formed by surface mining, drainage from coal refuse disposal areas...
The study has examined the feasibility of blasting for mitigating various abandoned mine land features on AML sites. The investigation included extensive field trial blasts at sites in North Dakota and Montana. A blasting technique was used that was based...
...impoundments and impounding structures; abandonment. 77.216-5 Section 77.216-5 Mineral Resources MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH...UNDERGROUND COAL MINES Surface Installations § 77.216-5 Water, sediment or slurry...
A study was conducted at the Snowy Creek - Laurel Run basin near Terra Alta, West Virginia, to determine the feasibility of demonstrating mine drainage control by known abatement techniques in abandoned coal mine areas having shallow overburden. The basin contains two abandoned m...
This report is a compilation of the oil and gas drilling and the coal mining for Montana in 1980. In 1980 a total of 789 drill holes were completed. Of these 423 were dry holes which include those holes reported as being dry, dry and abandoned, abandoned, plugged, permit expired, plugged and abandoned or drilled as ...
Ground subsidence monitoring is of paramount importance in relation to the safety and efficiency of underground mining operations. Moreover, in established coal fields in eastern Australia, it has become harder and harder to select underground minesites which can avoid major engineering structures both on the surface and ...
Economic impacts of reclaiming abandoned gob and slurry areas associated with underground coal mining in west-central Illinois are assessed. Using a land value method, monetary benefits of reclaiming the abandoned land range from $340,000 to $430,000/ using a ''''willingness to ...
Property damage and health hazards resulting from uncontrolled mine fires, burning both in surface outcrops of coal seams and in underground abandoned mines, can be minimized by the adoption of prompt and vigorous countermeasures. Typical examples of active mine fires which have been investigated by the Bureau in Allegheny County, Pa., ...
This project will evaluate the technical, economic and environmental feasibility of filling abandoned underground mine voids with alkaline, advanced coal combustion wastes (Fluidized Bed Combustion, FBC, ash). Success will be measured in terms of technica...
The workshop addressed underground subsidence problems, particularly those related to U.S. coal mining conditions. Topics addressed: regulatory insurance and legal issues; subsidence predictions; subsidence monitoring and control; abandoned mine lands and...
A method and apparatus are provided for the in situ biological conversion of coal to methane comprising culturing on a coal-containing substrate a consortium of microorganisms capable of degrading the coal into methane under suitable conditions. This consortium of microorganisms can be obtained from an underground ...
DOEpatents
Resource targets appropriate for federal sponsorship of research and development of advanced underground coal mining systems are identified. A comprehensive examination of conventional and unconventional coals with particular attention to exceptionally thin and thick seams, steeply dipping beds, and multiple seam geometry was made. The ...
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
The U.S. Bureau of Mines applied its mine fire diagnostic method to an abandoned anthracite mine fire site in Carbondale, Lackawanna County, PA. The technique to locate fires in abandoned coal mines and coal refuse piles includes the determination of hydrocarbon concentrations in mine gases, the imposition of an ...
Two in-seam reflection surveys and one transmission survey were acquired at an abandoned underground mine near Hurley, Virginia, to demonstrate the feasibility of detecting abandoned-mine voids utilizing coal-seam seismic waves. Standard, commonly available tools for seismic reflection processing were used. The ...
Shallow underground voids resulting from early coal mining and other resource recovery activities over the past several decades are now being recognized as a significant cause of ground subsidence problems in developing urban areas. Uncertain knowledge of abandoned coal mines also imposes potential hazards in ...
Jun 16, 2011 ... Title: Geochemistry of an abandoned landfill containing coal combustion waste: Implications for remediation ...
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previously-mined and abandoned surface and underground mines to obtain the remaining coal reserves. Through to Control Acid Mine Drainage Thomas Cook � Jeff Skousen � Tiff Hilton Received: 15 June 2008 / Accepted: 22 of overburden from the Number 5 Block coal seam were constructed during previous mining oper- ...
Seals are barriers constructed in underground coal mines throughout the United States to isolate abandoned mining panels or groups of panels from the active workings. Historically, mining regulations required seals to withstand a 140-kPa (20-psig) explosi...
It has been proposed that a mix made from fly and bottom ash from atmospheric pressure fluidized bed coal combusters (FBC ash), water, and stabilizers be injected from the surface into abandoned room and pillar coal mines through boreholes. Besides ash di...
The U.S. Bureau of Mines performed a comparative study of nine sites at eight surface coal mines to determine if the presence of near-surface underground abandoned workings resulted in the generation of adverse long-duration, low-frequency blast vibration...
Many urban and greenfield environments throughout the United Kingdom are located in regions where mining has occurred. Mining dates back to pre-Roman times and includes metalliferous minerals (such as gold, copper, lead & zinc), bulk minerals (such as sand-stone, limestone, gypsum & halite) and coal, the latter being the most important mineral mined both quantitatively ...
This manual presents a process to manage roadway sites beneath which abandoned underground mines exist. The process is comprised of four basic activities: (1) the establishment of an inventory of all roadway sites beneath which abandoned underground mines...
On September 30, 1993, the U.S. Department of Energy-Morgantown Energy Technology Center (DOE-METC) and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC) entered into a cooperative research agreement entitled {open_quotes}Management of Dry Flue Gas Desulfurization By-Products in Underground Mines{close_quotes} (DE-FC21-93MC30252). Under the agreement Southern Illinois ...
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Underground mining operations across the United States produce a number of environmental problems. The foremost of these environmental concerns is acid discharges from inactive and abandoned underground mines that deteriorate streams, lakes and impoundments. Waters affected by mine drainage are altered both chemically and physically. ...
methods for automated modeling of 3D environments. In September, 2002, we were given the opportunity to demonstrate our mapping capability in an underground coal mine. The opportunity arose as a result of the Quecreek mine accident, in which an inaccurate map caused miners to breach an abandoned, water-filled mine, trapping them for ...
Details the issues, hazards, and remediation techniques associated with abandoned mines and resource producing properties of the past on national park land. Abandoned mineral lands, commonly known as AML, are one of many types of disturbed lands in the National Park System. AML sites are 1) underground and surface mines, 2) placer and ...
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Underground coal gasification (UCG) offers a relatively low cost, environmentally sound method to produce clean fuels from coal. Underground coal gasification can provide pipeline quality gas and premium gasoline from deep, unusable coal. Underground ...
A general account is given of China's coal deposits, methods of underground mining and coal preparation plants.
From December 1975 to September 1977 the U.S. Geological Survey studied coal mine drainage in western Washington to 1) characterize the water quality of drainage from abandoned mines in the 11 coal-bearing areas of the State; 2) examine the water quality effects on a stream receiving drainage from an abandoned ...
The US Geological Survey studied coal-mine drainage in western Washington to (1) characterize the water quality of drainage from abandoned mines in the 11 coal-bearing areas of the state; (2) examine the water-quality effects on a stream receiving drainage from an abandoned coal mine; (3) ...
The pumped-slurry, blind backfilling process has been successful for stabilising ground over abandoned underground coal mines. This paper describes potential systems for monitoring backfill placement that would require fewer boreholes and give better definition than those in current use. Continuous process monitoring, acoustic emission ...
This paper describes two robotic systems developed for acquiring accurate volumetric maps of underground mines. One system is based on a cart instrumented by laser range finders, pushed through a mine by people. Another is a remotely controlled mobile robot equipped with laser range finders. To build consistent maps of large mines with many cycles, we describe an algorithm for ...
Coal is usually 'washed' with water and a variety of chemicals to reduce its content of sulfur and mineral matter. The 'washings' or 'coal slurry' derived from this process is a viscous black liquid containing fine particles of coal, mineral matter, and other dissolved and particulate substances. Coal slurry may be ...
... BKA. Descriptors : *MACHINES, *COAL MINES, *BITUMINOUS COAL, GERMANY, CUTTING, UNDERGROUND FACILITIES. ...
DTIC Science & Technology
Acid drainage produced by abandoned coal mines continues to cause serious water pollution problems. Without knowing the exact location of the concealed openings and the extent of the mine, source abatement techniques are virtually impossible. Drilling is the only known method for accurately determining the location and extent of the mine voids, but this is ...
Base-flow data from 779 sites in Ohio 's coal region were analyzed statistically to relate land use to selected water-quality characteristics. Sites were classified into five categories: unmined (100 percent unmined land), abandoned (50 percent or more abandoned surface mines), reclaimed (50 percent or more reclaimed surface mines), ...
Under an approved remining program, mine operators can remine abandoned coal mines without assuming legal responsibility for treatment of the previously degraded water, as long as the discharging waters are not further degraded and other regulatory requirements are satisfied. A US Bureau of Mines review of 105 remining permits in Pennsylvania indicates ...
For several years, our research group has been developing methods for automated modeling of three-dimensional environments. In September 2002, we were given the opportunity to demonstrate our mapping capability in an underground coal mine. The opportunity arose as a result of the Quecreek mine accident, in which an inaccurate map caused miners to breach an ...
Locating underground voids, tunnels, and buried collapse structures continues to present a difficult problem for engineering geoscientists charged with this responsibility for a multitude of different studies. Solutions used and tested for void detection have run the gamut of surface geophysical and remote sensing techniques, to invasive trenching and drilling on ...
The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 required promulgation of interim program regulations by November 3, 1977, and permanent program regulations by August 3, 1978. Relevant regulatory and litigation activities during 1978, and regulations issued under the act are discussed. Included are regulatory actions concerning abandoned mine lands, alluvial valley ...
During the normal course of underground coal mining, it sometimes becomes necessary to seal off abandoned areas to eliminate the need to ventilate them. Seals also are used to isolate fire zones or areas susceptible to spontaneous combustion. The objective of the research is to determine whether seals constructed from various materials ...
Titles of papers collected in these proceedings include: Tunneling operation detection; Data presentation for tunnel detection methodologies; A survey of direct inversion methods having possible application to (coal mine) tunnel detection; Tunnel detection using low-frequency magnetic field emissions; and Abandoned underground lignite ...
The author presents magnetic, electromagnetic, gravimetric, seismic refraction, and topographic surveys run over parts of the Acme Mine. The magnetic survey located buried prehistoric clinkers, but did not locate abandoned rails, tools and other iron objects. The electromagnetic, gravity, and topographic surveys did not give more than subtle hints of underlying openings, and ...
Coal exploration drill holes, measured sections, and underground mine data have been analyzed to reconstruct the depositional setting of the Rock Springs Formation. Extensive coal deposits up to 22 ft thick that developed on top of delta-front sandstones extend for 15 mi along depositional dip, and 36 mi along depositional strike. ...
... remedial strategies for abandoned mine drainage (AMD ... drainage from abandoned coal or ... HISTORIC SITES, *MINES(EXCAVATIONS), *RAILROAD ...
The objective is to develop and demonstrate two technologies for the placement of coal combustion by-products in abandoned underground coal mines, and to assess the environmental impact of these technologies for the management of coal combustion by-products. The two technologies for the ...
This report represents the Final Technical Progress Report for Phase II of the overall program for a cooperative research agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy - MORGANTOWN Energy Technology Center (DOE-METC) and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC). Under the agreement, SIUC will develop and demonstrate technologies for the handling, transport, and placement in ...
The study has examined the feasibility of blasting for mitigating various abandoned mine land features on AML sites. The investigation included extensive field trial blasts at sites in North Dakota and Montana. A blasting technique was used that was based on spherical cratering concepts. At the Beulah, North Dakota site thirteen individual vertical openings (sinkholes) were ...
Underground mining operations across the United States produce a number of environmental problems. The foremost of these environmental concerns is acid discharges from inactive and abandoned underground mines that deteriorate streams, lakes and impoundmen...
This patent application relates to the in situ or underground gasification of coal by drilling boreholes into the major fracture system of coal, igniting the coal, and recovering the gas formed.
