Monitoring of environmental factors at the San Manuel mine
- Mackay School of Mines, Reno, NV (United States)
- Magma Copper Co., San Manuel Mine, AZ (United States)
Currently, a 4.3 km long drift is being developed on the 3440 level in the Lower Kalamazoo project at the San Manuel Mine, Magma Copper Company, AZ. The drift, located at 1050 m below surface, is being constructed using a 4.6 m diameter tunnel boring machine (TBM). The drift is ventilated by a forcing type auxiliary ventilation system. At the face, to mitigate the impact on the work environment of the TBM, the system is equipped with dust extraction and refrigeration systems. Recently, to evaluate the ventilation conditions in the drift, a continuous monitoring system has been installed. The system can be used to measure the air velocity, barometric pressure, relative humidity and air and rock temperatures. This study describes the capabilities and limitations of this system, and presents a summary of the results.
- OSTI ID:
- 269208
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9506227-; TRN: 96:001467-0015
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 7. U.S. mine ventilation symposium, Lexington, KY (United States), 5-7 Jun 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Proceedings of the 7th US mine ventilation symposium; Wala, A.M.; PB: 525 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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