Efficient Production of coal faces and safety of coal mining in relation to gas content while mining the highly gas-bearing coal seams shall be provided by using the highly efficient drain-age and clearing means of the coalmine methane emission sources. In order to provide efficient basis for decision making and validating of technical solutions while designing the coalmine drainage systems there have been developed the Technical Regulations for Methane Extraction and Recovery under conditions of active highly gas-bearing seam mining. These Technical Regulations were successfully tested in course of process design of the coalmine methane drain- age systems for Kirov and Kotinskaya Mines owned by SUEK-Kuzbass.
The article analyzes some historical stages of development of the domestic mining inspection. The mining inspection fulfills an important mission - it carries out certain supervision over the safety of mining operations and resource conservation. Some urgent problems of mining safety, which require intensive efforts on the part of the state mining inspection, are discussed. A set of very complex tasks of damage and accident control is formulated. Modern approaches aimed at solving the problems of industrial safety and conservation of natural resources are presented.
