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Week of March 1 and 8, 1999

A drill-rig was set-up to drill a borehole into the #3 entry of the longwall at the #5 Crosscut. This borehole will be designated as Borehole #4 and will be used to remotely monitor the mine atmosphere during mine recovery operations.



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