you monitor the stability of waste dump slopes? 2. What is Safety Audit? How will you conduct a Safety Audit in your mine? What are the possible benefits of such an audit? 3. How air-borne dust survey is to be conducted in an opencast mine? Describe with a neat sketch the construction and working of a personal dust sampler. 4. Accidents caused by belt-conveyors in opencast mines are on the rise. What could be the possible causes? Write a code of practice for safe use of belt-conveyors. 5. State
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Reed Tennyson Prof Deborah Farris USEM 102‚ CRN 1665 June 4th 2012 Pebble Mine an Environmental Disaster waiting to happen A world away from everyday businesses and corporate office cubicles‚ commercial salmon fishing in Alaska isn’t the ordinary boat ride. Every season‚ the Alaskan salmon fisherman put their lives at stake in hopes of good pay and the experience of a lifetime. The populations and economy of every fishing village in Bristol Bay flourish during the salmon season. Salmon bring
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Enron: Questionable Accounting Leads to Collapse The Enron Corporation was established by integrating two major gas pipelines in 1985. The Company provided products and services related to natural gas‚ electricity‚ and communications and it was one of the world’s leading organizations at these sectors with claimed revenues of nearly $101 billion in 2000. Throughout the 1990s‚ Chair Ken Lay‚ chief executive officer Jeffrey Skilling and chief financial official officer Andrew Fastow transformed
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According to Jared Diamond there are five main characteristics that play a part in societal collapse: environmental damage‚ climate change‚ hostile neighbors‚ friendly neighbors‚ and cultural responses (Curren). Many early societies that collapsed experienced these problems such as the Sumerian civilization that was destroyed by their neighbors‚ the Elamites. Ancient Egyptian civilization was ruined by people infiltrating their country and changing their perspective on religion. The Rapa Nui civilization
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but the real damage is done psychologically. Some experience literal invisibility‚ where they’re isolated from the people the love. For others‚ they’re forced to go through figurative invisibility‚ where they’re dehumanized past the point of sanity. Miné Okubo‚ an American-born Japanese‚ was quickly isolated from her home after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. As for an American POW‚ Louie Zamperini‚ war meant years of hard labor‚ beatings‚ and starvation‚ all while he had no communication with his family
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The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe The collapse of communism in eastern europe can be based on three disticnct factors. Factor 1: People Power May: Hungary opens its borders with non communist Austria. Hungarians had already been granted the rights to free travel. However many east germans started using this route to get to west germany. June-August: protests against communist rule In poland continue throughout the summer. In august‚ communist party leaders agree truly free elsections
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In 2010 33 miners were held captive inside a mine for 69 days with not enough food and water to live for 3 weeks (Tobar). How did all 33 miners survive in this mine with only enough food to last less than half of the time they were in there? What engineering took place for the outsiders to get food down the 2‚300 ft mine(Boyette Chris‚ Michelle Rozsa‚ Rosa Flores). The miners outside of the mine used a drill to make a hole in the mountain and place a tube down the hole and sending food down to the
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Soviet Union fell including a stagnant economy‚ new reform policies‚ or general dismissal of communist ideology. Many of the issues that were either unresolved or worsened stem from Mikhail Gorbachev reign as General Secretary from 1985 until the collapse in 1991. While there were a plethora of issues surrounding the Soviet Union‚ Gorbachev seemed to be the focal point of where things went from bad to worse. Though Gorbachev had the Soviet
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realm and to some extent for the peasants. After his death Karl Knutsson became king of Norway and Sweden as he was the Swedish anti-king before. Denmark instead chose Christian I. of Oldenburg in 1448‚ who had the support of the Hanse and led to a collapse of the Kalmar Union. A time of war and chaos followed as Denmark fought against Sweden from 1451 until 1456 and a rebellion awakened in 1464. The fighting continued until Denmark and Sweden came to a peace treaty in 1473 – again signed in Kalmar
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First‚ the Sino-Japanese war caused the collapse of the tributary system‚ the Qing government lost the leading position in the East Asia. Tributary system had a long history in China and could be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty. The tributary system was a reciprocal relationship between superior and inferior comparable to the Three Bonds that kept China’s domestic society in order. After the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty‚ the Zhou emperor established a “feudal” network‚ enfeoffing (fengjian 封建)
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