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Browse practical guides on surface operations, safety records, production and equipment. Underground articles are educational; current Mine-Pro product workflows focus on surface mining.
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Part 46 training and workplace examination guides, each linked to the current rule.
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Part 46 or Part 48: where does a mine fit?
Start with the commodity and operation, then check the applicable training rule before building a training plan.
Read guide →What belongs in a Part 46 training plan?
A plan identifies who trains miners, what is taught and how the operation documents each session.
Read guide →Part 46 new miner training: a field checklist
Understand the timing, subjects and documentation before a new miner begins work.
Read guide →Newly hired experienced miner training
Experience elsewhere does not remove the need to address the new mine's hazards and procedures.
Read guide →New task training for mining equipment
Train before an unfamiliar task and keep a record tied to the equipment or assignment.
Read guide →Part 46 annual refresher training
Track the eight hours, the rolling 12-month window and the subjects actually taught.
Read guide →Part 46 training records and retention
What the certificate must show and how long the record stays available.
Read guide →Site-specific hazard awareness
Explain the hazards a visitor or miner may encounter at the particular site.
Read guide →Surface mine workplace examinations
A practical reading of 30 CFR § 56.18002 for surface metal and nonmetal working places.
Read guide →Workplace exam vs. equipment inspection
The work area and the machine answer different safety questions.
Read guide →Surface mining
How a surface mine shift fits together
From start-of-day checks through hauling, reconciliation and the daily report.
Read guide →What to observe on a haul road
A field-oriented look at visibility, drainage, grades, traffic and edge conditions.
Read guide →Berms and dump-edge checks
What crews should observe and document at active edges.
Read guide →Visibility and right-of-way at a pit
Reduce ambiguity where trucks, dozers and light vehicles cross paths.
Read guide →Excavator and haul truck loading workflow
Coordinate spotting, loading and release without losing load counts.
Read guide →Dump point communication and handoff
Keep the active dump position and any restrictions visible across crews.
Read guide →A useful mine shift handover
What the incoming crew needs to know immediately.
Read guide →Weather changes and surface mine operations
Use a consistent record of conditions, decisions and lost time.
Read guide →Sand & aggregate
Surface sand mining from pit to shipment
Understand the material path and why each measurement matters.
Read guide →Separating sand, trash and total production
Avoid mixing moved material with billable material.
Read guide →Aggregate screening and yield
Connect plant feed to saleable product and reject streams.
Read guide →Stockpile inventory and production
Why mined, processed and shipped totals can diverge on the same day.
Read guide →Weekly billable tonnage across sites
Build one defensible Monday-through-Sunday report for all operating sites.
Read guide →Cubic yards to tons in a sand pit
Volume becomes weight only after an appropriate bulk density is supplied.
Read guide →Underground mining
Underground mining methods: an introduction
A plain-language overview of access, extraction and ground control.
Read guide →Why underground mines need ventilation plans
Airflow affects heat, dust and contaminants along active work areas.
Read guide →Ground control in underground mining
Why geology and support plans shape how miners work below ground.
Read guide →Underground haulage and traffic
Narrow travel ways and shared equipment routes create distinct coordination needs.
Read guide →Equipment
Haul truck pre-shift inspection
A repeatable walk-around gives the next person a traceable condition record.
Read guide →Excavator utilization in a production shift
Separate scheduled time from actual operating time and downtime.
Read guide →Dozer defect and maintenance handoff
Make the operator's observation useful to maintenance and the next shift.
Read guide →Grader hours and haul-road maintenance
Link road work to the segment improved and time spent.
Read guide →Reconciling equipment hour meters
Catch impossible readings before they distort utilization and maintenance.
Read guide →Production
Calculate haul truck cycle time
Break the round trip into loading, travel, dumping, return and queue time.
Read guide →Set a daily target from a monthly mine quota
Calculate what is required over remaining operating days without assuming every day is full length.
Read guide →Estimate production lost to downtime
Translate a stoppage into a transparent planning estimate.
Read guide →Correct a mining production record
Keep the original submission and the reason for changing a total.
Read guide →Compare production across mine sites
Use target versus actual and date context rather than ranking raw totals alone.
Read guide →Technology
Training
Make a toolbox talk useful and traceable
A brief safety discussion should address today's work and record participation accurately.
Read guide →Build a site and equipment training matrix
Separate each miner's site awareness and equipment task evidence.
Read guide →Review a training certificate before import
A status should be backed by the right person, course and certification.
Read guide →Training after an equipment or process change
Review what people need to know before changed work is assigned.
Read guide →Explore by operation
Surface mining operations
Coordinate working places, heavy equipment, hauling and daily production at an active surface mine.
Sand mining operations
Track moved material, saleable sand, waste, trucks and stockpiles without mixing the measures.
Aggregate production and material records
Understand feed, screens, saleable fractions and stockpile movement.
Mine-Pro workflows
Mine inspections and workplace examinations
Keep machine checks and working-place examinations distinct, traceable and searchable.
Mine production tracking
Connect loads, truck payload, material categories and site targets to a reviewed daily total.
Mine equipment and defect records
Track condition, hours, downtime and accountable return-to-service decisions.
Miner training evidence
Retrieve people, mine sites, equipment tasks and source certificates in one place.
Daily and weekly mining reports
Turn field entries into reviewed daily operations and consolidated weekly sand totals.
Offline mining field records
Record work when signal fails and reconcile the submission when connectivity returns.