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Advances in Productive, Safe, and Responsible Coal Mining
- 1st Edition - August 18, 2018
- Editor: Joseph Hirschi
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 1 2 8 8 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 1 3 0 1 - 4
Advances in Productive, Safe, and Responsible Coal Mining covers the latest advancements in coal mining technology and practices. It gives a comprehensive introduction to the lates… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdvances in Productive, Safe, and Responsible Coal Mining covers the latest advancements in coal mining technology and practices. It gives a comprehensive introduction to the latest research and technology developments, addressing problems and issues currently being faced, and is a valuable resource of complied technical information on the latest coal mining safety and health research. As coal's staying power has been at the forefront of the world’s energy mix for more than a century, this book explores critical issues affecting coal mining, including how to maintain low-cost productivity, address health and safety hazards, and how to be responsible environmental stewards.
This book takes a holistic approach in addressing each issue from the perspective of its impact on the coal mining operation and industry as a whole.
- Explains how to effectively produce coal within existing environmental constraints
- Encapsulates the latest health and safety research and technological advances in the coal mining industry
- Written by authors who have developed the latest technology for coal mines
Process improvement teams; mine engineers; company executives; undergraduate and graduate-level mining engineering students; current or potential mining executives
- No. of pages: 336
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 18, 2018
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Hardback ISBN: 9780081012888
- eBook ISBN: 9780081013014
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Joseph Hirschi
Dr Hirschi is a Productivity Analyst in the Smart Solutions group. Prior to embarking on this new role, he was a project manager for the Illinois Clean Coal Institute leading their research efforts in coal mining and preparation. He has adjunct faculty status in the College of Engineering at Southern Illinois University, the institution from which he received a PhD degree in Engineering Science. He received BS and MS degrees in Mining Engineering and a MBA degree from the University of Utah. The first half of his career was at the Galatia Mine in southern Illinois where he was a safety technician, operations foreman, and mine engineer.
Affiliations and expertise
Productivity Analyst, Smart Solutions, Komatsu Mining Corporation, Mt. Vernon, USA and Instructor, Mining and Mineral Resources Engineering
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USARead Advances in Productive, Safe, and Responsible Coal Mining on ScienceDirect