52 DECEMBER 2023 WorldWide Drilling Resource® Mining Awards Honor Top U.S. Mines Adapted from Information by the National Mining Association The National Mining Association (NMA), U.S. National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) are celebrating the outstanding achievements in mine safety, technology, and reclamation. NMA’s Sentinels of Safety Award recognizes coal and mineral mining operations in ten categories for recording the most hours in a calendar year without a single lost-time injury, with a minimum of 4000 hours required for award consideration. The award categories reflect safety accomplishments of both small and large mines. “Everything that happens in and around a mine happens with a rigorous safety mindset,” said Rich Nolan, NMA president and CEO. “From the miners on the ground to their managers and beyond, safety is an area that requires constant vigilance. Today’s honorees represent our industry’s best; they’ve raised the bar for others, and I look forward to seeing the example they’ve set replicated across [the] industry.” Initiated in 1923 by then Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover, a former mining engineer, the Sentinels of Safety Award program remains the nation’s most prestigious recognition of mine safety and has helped foster a strong safety commitment on the part of U.S. mines. Recipients for 2022 Sentinels of Safety Award are: Large Coal Processing - Elk Creek Plant, Ramaco Resources, Verner, WV Large Open Pit - Smoky Canyon Mine, J R Simplot Company, Afton, WY Large Surface Coal - Kosse Mine, Luminant Mining Company, LLC, Kosse, TX Large Underground Coal - Foidel Creek Mine, Peabody, Oak Creek, CO Large Underground Metal - Henderson Operations, Climax Molybdenum Company, Empire, CO Large Bank or Pit - Monahans, Capital Sand Permian, LLC, Monahans, TX Large Dredge - Briggs Plant, Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC, Victoria, TX Large Metal/Nonmetal Mill - Midlothian Cement Plant, Martin Marietta North Texas Cement, LLC, Midlothian, TX Large Quarry - Pennsuco Quarry, Titan America, Medley, FL Large Underground Nonmetal - American Soda LLC, American Soda LLC, Green River, WY Small Underground Metal - Fire Creek, Hecla Mining Company, Winnemucca, NV Small Coal Processing - Lady Jane Plant, Rosebud Mining Company, Kittanning, PA Small Bank or Pit - Crater Sand & Gravel Inc, Crater Sand & Gravel, Inc., Central Point, OR Small Dredge - Raccoon River Sand, Martin Marietta Materials, Inc., Des Moines, IA Small Metal/Nonmetal Mill - Independent Salt Company, Independent Salt Company, Kanopolis, KS Small Open Pit - Streetman Plant, Arcosa LWS, LLC, Norman, OK Small Quarry - Portable Crusher, ROBCO Inc., Grants Pass, OR Small Surface Coal - Mine # 1, Thumper Coal LLC, Van Lear, KY Small Underground Coal - Vail Mine, Rosebud Mining Company, Freeport, OH Small Underground Nonmetal - Franklin Quarry, Vulcan Construction Materials, LLC, Brentwood, TN Arch Resources was awarded with the 2023 NIOSH Mine Safety and Health Technology Coal Sector Innovation Award for developing a fully wireless, rapid deployable atmospheric gas monitoring solution critical to ensuring a safe working environment. Hecla received the 2023 NIOSH Mine Safety and Health Technology Metal Sector Innovation Award for developing a method to allow for greater control of fault-slip seismic events that significantly improves safety. OSMRE awarded its Excellence in Surface Mining Reclamation, which is the highest honor given to coal mining companies with exemplary coal mine reclamation in the United States. This year, OSMRE presented its Good Neighbor Award to Arch Resources Thunder Basin Coal Company, LLC, for its Coal Creek and Black Thunder mines in Campbell County, Wyoming. MIN See us at Groundwater Week ~ Booth 702 Next Month - PRINT photos of DownHome DrillFest™.
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