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 Any employee of a mining company is very aware of safety. It starts from the day we are hired, with our New Miner Training, and continues throughout our mining career. Every company has some sort of Safety Manager or Safety Director, with multiple programs, training techniques and guidelines that are implemented to keep safety in the forefront of what we do every day. No mining company ever wants to see an employee, vendor, visitor or anyone else get hurt on their mine site. What I would like to touch on today is safety away from work.
 Hello TMRA members. As you read this month’s newsletter, I hope that each of you have been able to stay safe and healthy during the COVID19 pandemic. The world as we know it, has now changed and companies are having to address health concerns that they have never had to address before. To ensure employee health and safety, I am certain that your company has had to develop and implement new strategies for employee protection. Strategies such as employee temperature checks, employees working remotely, social distancing practices, adding masks and gloves as part of required PPE, limiting and/or forbidding travel and emphasizing the importance of handwashing. Hopefully, your company has been able to avoid the worst of this pandemic.
 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday released an interactive, web-based tool showcasing the mining sector’s economic contributions and environmental performance. During the last three years, EPA has developed several "sector snapshots" under the agency’s "Smart Sectors Program." According to EPA, "the sector snapshots employ a novel approach by assembling a range of environmental and economic data from different publicly-available sources to provide an integrated, easy–to–understand overview for each sector over the last 20 years."
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While most commodities are getting hammered by the coronavirus crisis, uranium prices are skyrocketing. The radioactive metal used in nuclear fuel has climbed 31% this year, making it the world’s best-performing major commodity. The gains have been spurred by mine shutdowns that have wiped out more than a third of annual global output at a time when demand from power plants has remained relatively stable.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy has announced up to $131 million for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) research and development (R&D) projects through one new funding opportunity announcement (FOA) and the winners of five project selections from a previous FOA.
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On March 5, 2020, an operator was using a Caterpillar D8T bulldozer on a coal surge pile near a load-out feeder location when the surge pile collapsed, engulfing the bulldozer and trapping the operator inside the cab. The operator was uninjured because the bulldozer was equipped with: * High-strength glass that prevented coal from entering the operator’s cab; and * Two Self Contained Self-Rescuers (SCSRs) which provided the equipment operator sufficient breathable air throughout the two-hour rescue effort. Click below to learn more safety practices.
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