Report of Investigations 9613: Real-Time Monitoring of Field Measurements for Mine Design: Greens Creek Mine, Admiralty Island, Alaska

Details

• Personal Author:
  Beus, Michael J. ; Orr, Timothy J.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• Description:
  Field investigations were conducted at the Greens Creek Mine on Admiralty Island in southeast Alaska to validate computer design of mining methods and assessing real time monitoring capabilities. The mine used cut and fill, drift and fill, and room and pillar mining methods to mine a high grade sulfide deposit containing silver, gold, lead, zinc and copper. The site was remote, and there was a need for timely acquisition of data, and a limited budget for instruments and data acquisition. Various sensors were placed to monitor rock mass deformation and strain temperature, sulfur-dioxide (7446095) gas emissions, and blasting. A distributive personal computer network and high speed modems were used to collect the data. The readings were used to develop visualization models of underground metal mining operations and drift and fill mining, and real time graphics displays of ground conditions. The results of the field tests indicated that it is possible to gather, process, visualize and verify mine designs on a real time basis. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Hazardous Substances Metals Mining Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Geophysics Industrial-hygiene Metallic-minerals Mining-industry Occupational-exposure Safety-measures Toxic-gases Underground-mining Workplace-monitoring
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• ISSN:
  1066-5552 (print)
• Publisher:
  U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Case Report
• Place as Subject:
  Alaska ; OSHA Region 10
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  SRC - Spokane Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  24 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Earnshaw, Jeff ; Albanese, Tom ; Vickery, James D. ; Hand, William ; Stone, Gene
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00237963
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB96-144183
• Citation:
  Spokane, WA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 9613, 1995 Dec; :1-19
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1996
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Spokane, WA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 9613
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2ca2bb5ffe503a01a7d81b7dfe0fa20471aa5daa34ef6b915b5cf101ad0b7c7fc0af540e531312acd9bb73600f439fd8ce67edbeec54c213e275f3673bd804b0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201641/cdc_201641_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.05 MB ]