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WE have received from the Mines Department the thirteenth annual report of the Safety in Mines Research Board for the year 1934. This contains a large amount of interesting and valuable matter. The report proper, after a general introduction, deals with safety instructions, and then there is an important section (Part 3) on the progress of safety researches, dealing with coal-dust explosions, firedamp explosions, spontaneous combustion of coal, mining explosives, falls of ground, haulage, wire ropes and mine ventilation, while the next part deals briefly with various health researches reported by the Health Advisory Committee of the Mines Department. The report is followed by a number of appendixes which are of great importance, and cover the work of the various local committees; it is interesting to see that the value of protective equipment is becoming more widely recognised by the miners.
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Safety in Mines Research. Nature 136, 790 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136790c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136790c0