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Grosvenor Mine Board of Inquiry Recommences next Week. Time to Summarize what we know up until 1st July 2019

March 5, 2021

It is time to re-focus on Grosvenor Mine as the Ministerial Board of Inquiry recommences next week on the 9th. Next week the Mines Inspectors deliver their evidence. All evidence…

LW Methane Drainage Boreholes. Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?

March 5, 2021

Rao_Goaf gas flow_1 (002) The question of whether the gas drainage boreholes in Longwall Goaves are contributing to the number of spontaneous combustion heatings, fires and explosions plaguing the Queensland…

Did Grosvenor form an Incident Management Team for Spontaneous Combustion in Mid to Late May 2020′ before 8th June 2020 Overpressure Event (Methane Explosion) in LW 104 Goaf? Was Ethylene detected in LW 104 prior to the 8th of June 2021?

March 1, 2021

Did Grosvenor form an Incident Management Team for Spontaneous Combustion on or around 18th of May 2020, approximately 3 weeks before 8th May 202o Overpressure Event (Methane Explosion) in LW…

Grosvenor Mine blast inquiry set to release witness list. Mackay Mercury 25th February 2021

February 25, 2021

Queensland’s Coal Mining Board of Inquiry is pushing ahead with a second tranche of hearings into last year’s Grosvenor Mine blast, with a list of witnesses set to be released…

Mining Goonyella Middle Seam and 24 years of Spontaneous Combustion Events. When will we learn?

February 23, 2021

The Goonyella Middle Seam averages over 6 metres in thickness. There is also the Goonyella Upper seam which forms part of the goaf as the roof collapses from Longwall Mining…

NSW has MDG 1006 Spontaneous Combustion Management. Queensland does not. North Goonyella seems to either fail or exceed all the critical parameters whichever way you choose to look at it

February 21, 2021

I have cut a few Sections from the 112 page MDG 1006 Spontaneous Combustion Management NSW MDG are not acknowledged under the Qld Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999.…

North Goonyella Mine Fire 10th October 2018. “One of the in seam drainage blow skids was found to be breathing in. This indicates that the water trap underground has blown out and the gas could be free venting into the Mine atmosphere. Dennis Black stated that they would attempt to fill the riser and attempt to refill the water trap in this manner”

February 11, 2021

MRE - North Goonyella - 10.10.2018.pdf H9 temperature at 59 degrees C, drone with thermal indicator to be used as a check. This has gone up from the first reading…

North Goonyella Mine Fire 5th October 2018. “During the night the Mine had located 38 surface to seam holes and identified 5/6 that were breathing in strongly. These have all been sealed.”

February 9, 2021

MRE - North Goonyella - 05.10.2018.pdf Today, 5 Oct 2018 1, Inspector Les Marlborough, accompanied by Inspector of Mines Geoff Nugent attended a meeting at North Goonyella Mine to…

North Goonyella Mine Fire MRE 3rd October 2018. “The group then travelled to the northern boundary of the exclusion zone for the H9 shaft. There was a clear presence of light coloured smoke emitting from the shaft, indicating a level of combustion occurring underground. A clear smell of burning/combustibles was also noted at the observation point.”

February 8, 2021

MRE - North Goonyella - 03.10.2018.pdf On Wednesday 3 October 2018 Inspectors Geoff Nugent and Robert Sherwood attend the North Goonyella Mine Accommodation Village to attend a meeting in regard…

North Goonyella Fire Report. Caesar judging Caesar? Conflict of Interest?

January 24, 2021

REASON 4 From September 3 2018 the Mines Inspectorate was intimately involved on a continual daily basis in trying to bring the out of Control Spontaneous Combustion under control, until…