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Hard west mining9/4/2023 The Mining Engineering Department collaborates with the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety to conduct Mine Emergency Response Development exercises, mine rescue contests, and other training. For more information or to schedule mine rescue training, please visit the Western Mining Training Center page. General Heavy Lifting and Rescue using air bagsĬourses can be conducted either on-site at the Edgar Mine or at mine sites anywhere within the United States.Comprehensive Mine and Underground Search and Rescue.Incident Command for Mine/Underground emergencies.Special training can be conducted for mine operators to address the individual needs of virtually any mine. Mine rescue training can be developed and tailored to the specific needs of any mining operation. The Mining Engineering Department’s Energy, Mining and Construction Industry Safety Program operates a full-function mine rescue training facility for use by the mining industry. Examples in recent years include: Documentation and Design of a Mine Water Distribution Network for the Edgar Experimental Mine, Design of a Power Distribution Network of the Edgar Experimental Mine Army Adit, Modifications to the Surface Drainage Network for the Edgar Experimental Mine, Design of a Compressor Installation for the Edgar Experimental Mine Army Adit. ![]() By the completion of the course students have earned safety credentials in underground mining from an MSHA certified mine safety training instructor.Īlthough the Edgar Experimental Mine is managed and operated by the Mining Engineering Department, students from other disciplines have the opportunity to interact with the mine through projects in both EPICS and Senior Design. The course runs the full cycle of underground mining operations, and includes hands-on experience with drilling, blasting, and mucking (loading blasted rock) using both rail mounted and rubber-tired mining equipment. Through a course in the practical use of mining equipment, students can apply classroom exercises to real situations in a realistic mining environment. In this underground laboratory, Mines students gain hands-on experience in underground mine surveying, geological mapping, rock fragmentation and blasting practice, mine ventilation field studies, rock mechanics instrumentation practice, underground mine unit operations, and mine safety. The Edgar Experimental Mine provides Mines students in Mining Engineering and other disciplines with a unique environment for research and practical training in mining techniques and systems. In fact, most of the equipment used at the mine is donated by individual businesses and corporations. Industry is highly supportive of the research and educational programs at the mine. The Mines Mining Engineering Department is proud of the Edgar Experimental Mine and the purposes it serves: educational tours for the public and school groups cooperation with industry, state, and federal organizations in research and training of the manpower needed to maintain the nation’s leadership in the field of mineral engineering. Today, as an underground laboratory for future engineers, it produces valuable experience for those who are being trained to find, develop, and process the world’s natural resources. In the 1870s, it produced high-grade silver, gold, lead and copper. The Edgar mine, the Colorado School of Mines Experimental Mine, is a contemporary to that era. ![]() The mountains above Idaho Springs and the nearby communities of Black Hawk, Central City and Georgetown show the abandoned mine openings and remnants of a romantic past: the “Rush to the Rockies” and feverish mining for silver and gold.
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