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Document ID (ISN)31227
CIS number 79-808
ISSN - Serial title 0026-5160 - American Mining Congress Journal
Year 1978
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Adams J.W.
Title Bore hole rescue systems.
Bibliographic information 11 Nov. 1978, Vol.64, No.11, p.33-40. Illus.
Abstract This article commences with a description of one of the first bore hole mining rescues in Aug. 1963 at Sheppton, Pennsylvania, and comments on progress in this field since that time: US Bureau of Mines sponsored study to determine how to improve miners' prospects of survival when trapped underground, formation in 1971 of a Mine Emergency Operations Group at the US Bureau of Mines, description of a simulated disaster, use of oil well rigs for drilling, technological progress in drilling, description of a deep (over 300m) rescue system developed by the South African Chamber of Mines, using high pressure (250psi) and high-speed drilling, and a vertical pipe rescue system recently invented in the USA. Other aspects considered include: availability of higher pressure air compressors (<350psi) commercially; role of US governmment; periodic retraining of personnel.
Descriptors (primary) underground work; escape and rescue; mine rescue
Descriptors (secondary) rescue equipment; drilling and boring (rock, earth)
Document type -
Subject(s) Mines and quarries
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) First aid and emergency organization