Report of the Department of Mines1886 |
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Page 40 - ... may give notice in writing thereof to the owner, agent, or manager of the mine, and shall state in such notice the particulars in which he considers such mine, or any part thereof, or any matter, thing, or practice, to be dangerous or defective, and require the same...
Page 40 - ... mine, or any part thereof, or any matter, thing, or practice, to be dangerous or defective, and require the same to be remedied...
Page 40 - Act applies, or any part thereof, or any matter, thing, or practice in or connected with any such mine, to be dangerous or defective, so as in his opinion to threaten or tend to the bodily injury of any person...
Page 36 - Act applies, whether for the purpose of an entrance to such mine or of a communication from one part to another part of such mine, and persons are taken up or down or along such shaft, plane, or level by means of any engine, windlass, or gin, driven or worked by steam or any mechanical power, or by an animal, or by manual labour...
Page 22 - Ten cents on every ton of two thousand two hundred and forty pounds of coal sold or removed from the mines or used in the manufacture of coke or other form of manufactured fuel.
Page 23 - Copper. — Four cents upon every unit, that is upon every one per cent, of copper contained in each and every ton of two thousand three hundred and fifty-two pounds, of copper ore sold or smelted.
Page 38 - ... shot, or other violent inflammation. To produce such a result, however, the conditions must be exceptional and are only likely to be produced on rare occasions. 4. Different dusts are inflammable, and consequently dangerous, in varying degrees, but it cannot be said with absolute certainty that any dust is entirely free from risk. 5. There appears to be no probability that a dangerous explosion of coal dust alone could ever be produced in a mine by a naked light or ordinary flame.
Page 39 - British royal commission in 1894 in mentioning "flameless explosions" says (p. 25): Many different patent explosives have been brought to the notice of the commission. The so-called "flameless explosives" are largely in use in all parts of the country and as the result of practical experience are generally pronounced to be effective substitutes for gunpowder, and certainly very much safer. Each of these compositions has its advocates and each is said to be flameless or practically so. As far as dust...
Page 7 - Mississippi shall commence on the first day of October, and end on the thirtieth day of September of each year...
Page 38 - Where loss of life or serious personal injury has immediately resulted from an explosion or accident, the place where the explosion or accident occurred shall be left as it was immediately after the explosion or accident...