https://www.dailymercury.com.au/news/workers-concerns-about-grosvenor-sometimes-ignored/4233375/ A miner injured in the Grosvenor blast has told an inquiry into the disaster he believed senior management did not always listen to workers' concerns about the longwall face.…
The best analogy is that each psi is essentially the same as each cyclone category that we are familiar with. 3 psi = category 3 cyclone The link below is…
The Grosvenor LW 104 like all longwalls has some methane contamination of the intake air entering the longwall face at the maingate. For the sake of simplicity lets say the…
I sent the following email to the Organiser of the Queensland Mining Industry Health and Safety Conference 2021, to submit the forms to Four Distinct but related Topics. To Robert…
For the last several weeks, we have heard ad-nauseum about the the complicated scenario of a A small intense PUR driven spontaneous combustion event that no one detected prior to…
From the 2021 NSW TRG Development of a spontaneous combustion principal hazard management plan for underground coal mining operations. 3.3.2. Known prevention controls for spontaneous combustion Elements of mine design…
There are 2 rarely if ever discussed and referenced goaf gas diagrams in the ACARP Optimisation of Inertisation Practice Report 1996 (Balusu Michael Wendt and Sheng Xue) The authors description…
During the evidence and testimony of Dr. Ting Ren he was getting asked about explosive gas distribution from a 2005 Research Paper diagram. One of the comments I made while…
There are in my count at least 4 Inspectors with direct knowledge of Grosvenor Mine who have not given evidence about Grosvenor Mine. How can anyone fully answer these questions…
There is mention of recorded camera footage of the explosion on the Longwall 104 face in Anglo “Learning From Incidents” Investigation Report Incident Number: IN.00224943 into the Methane Ignition on LW 104. The problem for all…