United States Bureau of Mines

Yeah,

because what I didn't realize at the time is that they had a mining research contract with the Bureau of Mines.

This would have been in September of 1984.

And that mining research contract was to, you know, study the effects of geology on blast vibrations, ground vibrations.

It's always going to be there, right? But you can minimize it.

And that's really the goal of the electronic detonators and the single hole analysis is to Minimize the energy within the range that residential structures respond to.

And you know from the Bureau of Mines curve that that's a very narrow band.

If we can get frequencies in the 40 hertz range, the house is not going to respond to that.

Hey.

Yeah? Bureau of Mines.

What's your business with them? I found a gold mine last night.

Go on, will you? Get on

Three or four matters of special importance and significance I beg that you will permit me to mention in closing.

Our Bureau of Mines ought to be equipped and empowered to render even more effectual service than it renders now in improving the conditions of mine labor and making the mines more economically productive as well as more safe.

This is an all-important part of the work of conservation, and the conservation of human life and energy lies even nearer to our interests than the preservation from waste of our material resources.

We owe it in mere justice to the railway employees of the country to provide for them a fair and effective Employers' Liability Act, and a law that we can stand by in this matter will be no less to the advantage of those who administer the railroads of the country than to the advantage of those whom they employ.