Newpac Coal to Install PED
Newpac Coal Mine is a new mine development in the Hunter valley, NSW, Australia.
As the mine readies itself for longwall production the communication infrastructure was reviewed to ensure that an optimum overall system was implemented.
As part of this, and the mine’s responsibilities to ensure their Emergency Preparedness obligations were met, PED was selected to provide both day to day paging for general mine management, and as the primary emergency evacuation system.
The mine will install PED Personal Receivers on all 200 of its underground workers. An 8 km (25,000 ft) surface antenna will be run around and through the old open pit mine that lies above the seam to be mined.