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L3
Corp.
The Nation's Top Gun in coal miner health and safety said he does
not believe the technology will be there to meet one requirement of
the 2006 MINER Act. A division of the Nation's sixth largest defense
contractor is out to prove him wrong...>>more
crandall memorial.
Heroes Among Us, the memorial in honor of the nine men who died as a
result of the August 2007 Crandall Canyon mine collapse, will be
officially unveiled in Huntington, Utah on Sunday, September 14,
2008. The monument, created by sculptor Karen Jobe Templeton,
consists of deep-relief bronze portraits of each of the nine men --
the six miners trapped in the mine collapse facing the three miners
who died during the failed rescue effort -- set in a 16-foot long,
6-foot tall curved wall...>>more
below the
radar
In mining, equipment performance is viewed as the key to maximizing
profits. People create value in tandem with equipment that is
"running" or "down", but their roles in value creation are
overlooked, de-emphasized or misunderstood. Equipment comes with a
design capacity, but if people fail to do the right things at the
right time, some capacity will never be used and equipment
performance and profits will not be maximized or optimized...>>more
united
coal
United Coal Company, LLC, one of Central Appalachia's most
innovative and progressive coal companies from the coal boom of the
1970s, has been resurrected ---and just in time-- for the current
coal boom brought on by the international demand for steam and
metallurgical coal...>>more
red
robertson
The motorist driving into Grundy VA is informed by a roadside sign
at the town limits that the Grundy High School wrestling team has
won 15 state championships, eight of them in a row. What the
motorist doesn't see is the starting point for this string of
titles: a private white brick wrestling facility that coal mine
owner/operator Franklin Delano (Red) Robertson built beside his
white brick residence on a strip mine bench high above the highway...>>more
capsule
news
Kentucky-based Quest Minerals & Mining Corp. announce that its
contract mining group, Whitestar Mining, LLC, is making final
maintenance and equipment repairs as it prepares to mine its Pond
Creek location, held under its wholly owned subsidiary Gwenco, Inc.
Production goals are expected to reach 1,200 to 1,500 tons per day..>>more
coal events
NATIONAL PIKE STEAM, GAS & HORSE CONSTRUCTION & EQUIPMENT SHOW
DATE:
August 8-10
SITE:
Rt. 40, 3 miles west of
Brownsville, PA
SPONSOR: Historical Construction Equipment Assoc. (HCEA)
CONTACT: Carolyn Zoeller
PH:
724/663-4252
FAX:
724/225-4080
E-Mail:
info@nationalpike.com
WEB:
www.nationalpike.com
BOOTHS: Booths available.
ADMISSION: $5 adults, children under 12 free.
COMMENTS:
Antique steam traction engines, construction equipment,
threshing and bailing, grinding corn meal and while wheat flour,
shingle making, rope making, surface mining equipment, crafts,
flea market. Food, live entertainment...>more
coal people in the news
Jeane Hull,
former Kennecott Utah Copper executive, appointed to run Peabody
Energy's coal mining operations in Wyoming's Powder River
Basin. Hull will oversee all aspects of Peabody's three surface
mines, which in 2007 shipped 161.5 million tons of coal. Hull
joined Peabody in May 2007 as senior vice president of
engineering and technical services. Before that, Hull was VP of
operations at Kennecott, a VP and GM of Spring Creek Coal, Rio
Tinto, and spent 12 years with Mobil Mining and Minerals,
including a decade at a PRB coal mine..>>more
product news
Puritan
Magnetics, Inc., Oxford, MI, features the Head Pulley Magnet
that provides continuous self-cleaning on products conveyed by
belt. As product is conveyed along the belt it reaches the head
pulley and enters the magnetic field where metal contaminants
are attracted and held tightly to the best surface. As the belt
is conveyed around the magnetic pulley, metal contaminants are
held in place until they pass through the magnetic field where
they are safely discarded separate form the clean product. Call
Andrea Ezyk at 248/628-3808...>>more
worldwide news
New World Resources of the Netherlands plans to invest $1.3
billion to develop and reopen the Debiensko mine
in southern Poland where it will employ 3,000 workers and
extract some 4 million tons of coal a year. NWR unit Karbonia
has permission to extract the coal, which has some 100 million
tons in reserve. NWR has 229 million tons of reserves in the
Czech Republic...>>more
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