Mining was a dangerous business in the 19th Century as miners had to work in difficult conditions with limited tools. Add to it the risk posed by firedamp – the common name given to a mixture of ...

At least 25 miners were killed and dozens injured in yesterday’s firedamp explosion at the state-owned Turkish Hard Coal Enterprises’ (TTK) Amasra Plant Directorate mine in Bartın on the Black Sea ...

THE Safety in Mines Research Board has issued as Paper No. 86 an account of an automatic firedamp recorder, reference to which has already been made and a picture of the plant published in the twelfth ...

THE first of Mr. Brown's two papers contains a proposal to institute the systematic observation of earth-tremors for purposes which he describes as follows:— On the Observation of Earth-shakes or ...

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A total of 18 people are confirmed to have died after two coal mine accidents last week in southern Poland. Authorities announced Wednesday that the number of people who lost their lives following ...

The company was previously warned about high levels of methane in the mine, a union has stated. Forty-five workers who were affected by the smoke were taken to state hospitals in Kınık and Soma, ...

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