Sentence examples for sections of mines from inspiring English sources

The new regulations also required mine operators to install stronger barriers between active and non-active sections of mines.

Officials said they do close down sections of mines to fix serious violations, but they rarely use the added powers they have had for more than 30 years.

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators told Congress on Tuesday that they would become more aggressive in enforcing mine safety laws, vowing to close mines with repeated safety violations and shut down sections of mines when inspectors find serious violations.

A significant problem that must be solved in order to achieve continuous autonomous mining in longwall coal mines is the measurement of small changes in the position or orientation of specific sections of mining equipment over extended operational periods.

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State and federal mine safety reports show that, in April 2004, a miner suffered a broken pelvis and leg when he was pinned by a 10-foot-long section of mine wall that had broken loose.

Open image in new window Fig. 8 Typical cross-sections of mining sequence generated by TCA-based IP model.

For the full field trial of the sensor under realistic conditions, a significant section of mining roadway was necessary, under more realistic conditions including the presence of piping, signage and other metallic structures found in a typical coal mine.

Mine operators will be required to give up the longstanding practice of sealing and forgetting abandoned sections of underground mines.

Federal regulations passed after the Sago disaster increased the monitoring of air quality in active and sealed sections of the mines to avoid methane build up.

In theory, it should have been possible to climb them and bypass the collapsed sections of the mine.