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Austar coal burst calls for extra vigilance: report

Microseismic monitoring is essential for developing an understanding pressure bumps.

Lou Caruana
Underground at Yancoal's Austar colliery in NSW.

Underground at Yancoal's Austar colliery in NSW.

A pressure bump of significant intensity was immediately followed by a “dynamic” ejection of coal from the longwall B2 face during production at Austar in the New South Wales Hunter Valley at 5.15 am on...

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