Coal mining regulations

Coal Exploration and Mining

Image Mining for Intelligent Autonomous Coal Mining

Automation in underground mining enhances safety and leads to economic efficiencies. After more than 50 years of research, automation tasks have gradually been growing out of the classic engineering/mechanical environment and require a sophisticated datamining treatment. The success of (mechanical) process automation has left only one remaining place in the coal-excavation process where human l...

Coal Exploration and Mining Geology

Data Structuration in Coal Research and Coal Mining

Mercury policy and regulations for coal-fired power plants.

INTRODUCTION Mercury is a high-priority regulatory concern because of its persistence and bioaccumulation in the environment and evidence of its having serious adverse effects on the neurological development of children. DISCUSSION Mercury is released into the atmosphere from both natural and anthropogenic sources. Coal-fired utilities are considered to be one of the largest anthropogenic mer...