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Articles on Mining Technology
Arch Coal Wins CIO 100 Award for Resourcefulness
September 2003
ST. LOUIS, MO. (Sept. 4, 2003) - St. Louis-based Arch Coal, Inc. (NYSE: ACI) earned the prestigious CIO 100 award from CIO magazine. The 2003 CIO 100 award recognizes organizations around the world that excel in positive business performance through resourceful IT management and practices.
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Indiana Ceremony Marks Upcoming Test of World's Largest Clean Coal-powered Fuel Cell
From Power Engineering Magazine, August 2003
Terre Haute, IN, Aug. 14, 2003 - The U.S. Department of Energy and the nation's electric power industry took a major step toward the goal of linking a super-efficient fuel cell to a clean coal technology power plant.
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Minnesota Puts Its Weight Behind Coal Gasification
From Power Engineering Magazine, July 2003
An energy bill signed into law in late May in Minnesota by Governor Tim Pawlenty provides a big boost for a coal gasification project planned for the Iron Range of northeastern Minnesota, where more than 10,000 jobs have been lost over the past decade due to low world steel prices.
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Jet Engine Successful in Fighting Mine Fire
From DOE Fossil Energy Techline, June 2, 2003
"Faireview, WV -- A modified jet engine has been used to successfully fight a West Virginia mine fire that had been burning for nearly two months and was the cause of 300 employees being temporarily laid off when mine operations were idled. Positioned at the mouth of the one of the mineshafts, the jet engine was used to blow water vapor and inert gases into the mine to smother the fire by creating an inert environment underground. It was the first time the technique had been tried in the United States.
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From Coal to Chemicals...Successful Clean Coal-to-Methanol Project Boosts Prospects For "Multi-Product" Coal Plant
From DOE Fossil Energy Techline, May 13, 2003
"Kingsport, Tenn. - It was 35 years ago that a single word in the smash hit, coming-of-age movie The Graduate made cinema history: ’plastics.’ As a baby-faced Dustin Hoffman learned, the future was "plastics."
Now, largely because of one of the Department of Energy's most successful Clean Coal Technology projects, in the next 35 years, the future may well be ’plastics…from coal.’
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Modeling Makes the Difference
From Engineering & Mining Journal, April 2003 Issue
"Designing underground mines is extremely complex, and an engineer needs to consider all the interrelated and interdependent conditions that make mining underground possible. The best way to analyze the huge amounts of data collected during all phases of mine exploration, development, and operations is with computers and appropriate software. While there is no substitute for engineering experience, many programs are available that help make this complex and demanding job faster and easier. The right software can enhance the engineer's ability to visualize geologic structure and mine layouts so design changes can be evaluated quickly."
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Cryogenics Cool Mining Expenses
From Coal Age, January 2003 Issue
"Traditional methods of cost-cutting become very frustrating when every number has been crunched and the goal is still out of reach. This is a common problem at almost every business. Managers must constantly look for acceptable means of reducing expenses and investigate all the possibilities they discover.
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New Clean Coal Technology Fires Country's Cleanest Power Plant
From Mining Engineering, December 2002 Issue
"A new clean coal technology has been developed that eliminates more than 99.99% of the particulate matter that is released when coal is burned. The Advanced Hybrid filter system is in operation at the Big Stone coal-fired plant in South Dakota."
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An Active Proximity Warning System for Surface and Underground Mining Operations
"NIOSH has developed an active proximity warning system called HASARD (Hazardous
Area Signaling and Ranging Device) for warning workers as they approach known
dangerous areas around heavy mining equipment and other dangerous work zones in underground
and surface mining operations." Click here for full-text.
Demonstration Plant Aims To Prove New Ironmaking Technology
From Engineering News Record, October 14,2002
"A new ironmaking process that offers a cleaner way to produce oxygen-free iron nuggets is moving from pilot testing to a demonstration stage at a Great Lakes mining plant. If the demonstration proves successful, it could lead to construction of the world's first, full-scale iron nugget production plant. The nuggets could be substituted for pig iron in the steelmaking process."
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Using the Heavens to Move Earth: An Industry
Enters a New Era
By Bill Purvis, NMA Policy and Senior Writer
"America's mineral resource providers
are turning to space satellites and other 21st century technologies
to reshape themselves for a new era - global
positioning satellites, communications satellites and imaging
satellites. They affect production, reclamation and
exploration for the new resources of the future."
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