MSHA'S REVISED QUARTZ ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM; A WORKING HYPOTHESIS ON HOW SILICA AND SILICA SURFACE MAY CAUSE SILICOSIS AND CWP; WETTING CHARACTERISTICS OF PARTICLES AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN DUST ABATEMENT; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DETECTION OF REACTIVE FREE RADICALS IN FRESH COAL DUST AND QUARTZ DUST AND ITS IMPLICATION TO PNEUMOCONIOSIS AND SILICOSIS; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUE FOR CALCULATING THE EQUIVALENT AERODYNAMIC DIAMETER OF PARTICLES; MINIRAM PERFORMANCE IN THE COAL MINING ENVIRONMENT; MEASUREMENTS OF RESPIRABLE DUST CONCENTRATIONS BY USING VARIOUS SAMPLERS IN UNDERGROUND COAL MINES; THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON DUST TRANSPORT IN MINE AIRWAYS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DETERMINING THE SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF COAL DIESEL AEROSOL MIXTURES WITH THE MICROORIFICE UNIFORM DEPOSIT IMPACTOR; FRACTURE MODE AND LOADING RATE INFLUENCES ON THE FORMATION OF RESPIRABLE SIZE FRAGMENTS ON NEW FRACTURE SURFACES; CORRELATION OF FRAGMENT SIZE DISTRIBUTION AND FRACTURE SURFACE IN COAL CUTTING UNDER VARIOUS CONDITIONS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ELEMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AIRBORNE COAL MINE DUST; VARIATION IN MINERAL AND ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION OF RESPIRABLE COAL MINE DUSTS BY WORKER LOCATION AND COAL SEAM.

Throughout the mining and processing of minerals, the mined ore undergoes a number of crushing, grinding, cleaning, drying, and product sizing operations as it is processed into a marketable commodity. These operations are highly mechanized, and both individually and collectively these processes can generate large amounts of dust. If control technologies are inadequate, hazardous levels of respirable dust may be liberated into the work environment, potentially exposing workers. Accordingly, federal regulations are in place to limit the respirable dust exposure of mine workers. Engineering controls are implemented in mining operations in an effort to reduce dust generation and limit worker exposure.

Book & CD. Coal mine dust is one of the most serious occupational hazards in the coal mining industry, and overexposure can cause coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) and a number of other lung diseases, collectively referred to a black lung disease. CWP has been the underlying or contributing cause of death for more than 75,000 coal miners since 1968. This book provides an overview of key studies, background history and health reviews on occupational exposure to respirable coal mine dust.