Underground hard-rock mines use a wide variety of extraction methods and they have many common dust sources and dust control needs. Ore passes, blasting, drilling, conveying, transferring, crushing, ...

Dust collection systems capture fugitive coal dust that would otherwise escape from the perimeter of equipment areas. Collected fugitive dust is fuel that should be delivered to the furnace and burned ...

Imagine coating an expensive part with a layer of diamond dust the width of a human hair, capturing its light pattern as a unique identifier, then storing that identifier in a traditional database or ...