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Duty to keep updated mine plans
Mines And Minerals (Safety, Health And Environmental) Regulations, reg. 41 · Revised Edition 2020
The manager shall keep at the mine, accurate plans that are updated every 3 months and which are on a scale that accords with good engineering practice as follows–
(a) a surface plan showing the claims, licences or leases on which mining is being carried out,
and all lakes, watercourses, naturally unstable ground, peat bogs or sloughs, main roads,
railways, transmission lines, buildings, shafts,
adits, or other mine openings, surface mine dumps,
tailings ponds and catchment impoundments and their overflow channels and topographic contours;
plans.
(b) a separate underground plan of each level showing all workings including shafts,
tunnels, diamond drill holes, dams, bulkheads,
electrical substations, explosives storage,
permanent seals and stoppings;
(c) vertical mine sections at suitable intervals and azimuths, showing all workings, diamond drill holes and the location of the top of bedrock,
ground surface, type of overburden and any body of water or watercourse;
Cross-sections.
(d) a ventilation plan showing the normal direction and volume of main air currents and the location of permanent fans, ventilation doors, and connections with adjacent mines;
plans.
(e) a plan showing the location of all fixed electrical apparatus in the mine and the routes of all fixed power feeders, properly rated and Electrical plans.
98 referenced, and all electrical feeder control apparatus and equipment; and Escape plans.
(f) an emergency and rescue plan of the workings showing the routes of egress from the active workings, the flow of ventilating air and under- ground refuge stations.
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