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PAPERBACK price:$34.75 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Induced Seismicity Potential in Energy Technologies Research Required to Support Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Monitoring Other Related Titles Seismic Signals from Mining Operations and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: Comments on a Draft Report by a Department of Energy Working Group (1998) Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources (CGER) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "7 Conclusions." Seismic Signals from Mining Operations and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: Comments on a Draft Report by a Department of Energy Working Group. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1998. Please select a format: Page 31   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. 7 Conclusions. Based on its review of the draft report of the DOE Working Group, the NRC committee concluded the following: Most U.S. mines will be not be “visible” to the CTBT monitoring system. Most large U.S. mines have optimized their operations in order to remain competitive and could be adversely affected economically by the suggested changes in blasting practices or re-engineering of mine designs proposed in the DOE Working Group report. The CTBT monitoring system would benefit greatly from the voluntary participation of “visible” mines in a few, simple, cooperative measures that would have little or no impact on mining operations and could, in some cases, improve blasting efficiency or mine safety. A stepwise approach (drawing from the DOE Working Group report), beginning with simple communications between mine operators and government seismologists, would be adequate to address most of the problems of event ambiguity in CTBT monitoring. If not, then it may be necessary to employ active mine monitoring techniques for those mine operations that produce problematic seismic signals. A voluntary approach that results in decreasing the visibility or ambiguity of seismic signals originating from mining operations would also benefit the United States by setting a positive example for other countries to participate in confidence-building measures under the treaty regime. It is likely that an effective voluntary program would be acceptable to the mining industry, and could therefore be fully implemented soon after the entry into force of the CTBT. Page 31 Front Matter (R1-R12) Executive Summary (1-2) 1 Introduction (3-10) 2 General Comment on the Draft Report of the DOE Working Group (11-14) 3 Restatement of the Problem (15-18) 4 An Alternative Approach (19-22) 5 Communications (23-26) 6 Additional Research (27-30) 7 Conclusions (31-32) Appendix A: Specific Comments on the Draft Report of the DOE-Working Group Report (33-42) Appendix B: Executive Summary of the DOE-Working Group Report (43-54) Appendix C: Committee on Seismic Signals from Mining Activities (55-56)

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