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Strata’s HazardAvert System for Proximity Detection & Collision Avoidance Increases Safety Awareness

February 8, 2012

HazardAvert® is a proximity detection and collision avoidance safety system designed to prevent accidents and injuries by detecting when a person or vehicle enters a specifically marked area, or zone, around an operating piece of machinery. When this marked zone

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AMR Launches New Generation of Tagging and Tracking System for Underground Mine Communications

June 14, 2011

Since 1975, American Mine Research (AMR) has been supporting the mining industry’s need for enhanced safety through the use of ground continuity monitors and control electronics. They have more than 30,000 circuits of the pilotless monitor in operation throughout the

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Barrick and Newmont’s Turquoise Ridge JV Uses Condition-Based Programs to Achieve Goals

March 15, 2011

As a joint venture between two of the largest gold companies in the world, Barrick Gold Corporation and Newmont, Turquoise Ridge Joint Venture (TRJV) sees maintenance and reliability of its fleet as being extremely critical to its success. The Turquoise

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Flex-Mat® 3 For Modular & Tensioned Screens Increases Screen Capacity & Material Throughput

January 5, 2011

Flex-Mat® 3 High-Performance, Self-Cleaning Screen Media from Montreal-based Major Wire Industries Limited helps mining operations increase screen capacity and material throughput while reducing downtime. Available for modular or tensioned screen decks, Flex-Mat 3 panels have more open area, providing up

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Mine Site Technologies’ VoIP MinePhone Certified Intrinsically Safe

January 4, 2011

Mine Site Technologies’ MinePhone, a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone handset for underground two-way communications, has received IEC Ex ia Group I Certificate of Conformity from TestSafe in January 2011. This is the final component of MST’s digital tracking

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Strata Worldwide Goes Wireless With CommTrac Underground Communication System

November 23, 2010

Strata CommTrac is a completely wireless, intrinsically safe and MSHA approved, two-way text communications and tracking system for underground mining. It is a self-forming, self-healing, node-based system that communicates on a mesh architecture. Simple “pick and place,” node-to-node configuration that

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Real Life Mining Stories with Leadership Lessons From R. Glenn Ray

November 23, 2010

It was three months before my 19th birthday and I had been working through the summer of 1972 for my father as a laborer on a residential construction projects.  I assisted the carpenters wherever needed from digging the footer to

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American Mine Research Receives MSHA Approval on Latest Safety Innovation

October 25, 2010

American Mine Research Inc. received MSHA approval on its latest mine safety product, the Model MN-6215 Dual Channel Wireless Transceiver. The design of this unit meets the applicable requirements of Title 30 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 23 and is

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Brookville Equipment’s Improvements to Tier 3 Engines Improves Diagnostic Capabilities

March 11, 2010

Brookville Equipment Corporation’s line of underground mining and tunneling equipment has been continuously improved since they began manufacturing this type of equipment more than thirty years ago.  Over the last decade, BEC has been increasing the number of diesel units

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