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Coal Mining Safety and Health Regulation 2017
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### sec.60 Record of drilling activities
This section applies to a coal mine where the only activities carried on are principally for, or in connection with, exploring for coal.
The site senior executive of the mine must ensure a record, complying with this section, of all boreholes for exploration or fluid drainage that are drilled from the surface is made and given to—
the holder for the mine; and
the CEO.
The record must include the following—
the accurate location of each borehole collar;
the depth and thickness of each coal seam intersected;
if a borehole is not vertical—details of its bearing, dip angle and length;
the location, nature and dimensions of any metallic, radioactive or other potentially harmful material left in any borehole.
Plans and information required to be kept at the mine under section 67 of the Act must include the information contained in the record.
s 60 amd 2020 SL No. 69 s 24 sch 1
(sec.60-ssec.1) This section applies to a coal mine where the only activities carried on are principally for, or in connection with, exploring for coal.
(sec.60-ssec.2) The site senior executive of the mine must ensure a record, complying with this section, of all boreholes for exploration or fluid drainage that are drilled from the surface is made and given to— the holder for the mine; and the CEO.
(sec.60-ssec.3) The record must include the following— the accurate location of each borehole collar; the depth and thickness of each coal seam intersected; if a borehole is not vertical—details of its bearing, dip angle and length; the location, nature and dimensions of any metallic, radioactive or other potentially harmful material left in any borehole.
(sec.60-ssec.4) Plans and information required to be kept at the mine under section 67 of the Act must include the information contained in the record.
- (a) the holder for the mine; and
- (b) the CEO.
- (a) the accurate location of each borehole collar;
- (b) the depth and thickness of each coal seam intersected;
- (c) if a borehole is not vertical—details of its bearing, dip angle and length;
- (d) the location, nature and dimensions of any metallic, radioactive or other potentially harmful material left in any borehole.