1. Emergency Preparedness In Mining

2. Introduction Rich Maier Chief of Emergency Response for Barrick Nevada
IAEMT
14 years at Barrick
13 years of Emergency Response experience

3. Mining
What most Americans think we do.
What we really do.

4. Mining in Northern Nevada
Barrick
Cortez District- 1.5 hours south west of Elko and 15 miles from Crescent Valley Nevada
1300 employees
Surface and Underground
Goldstrike Property- 1 hour and 15 minutes North West of Elko and 45 minutes north of Carlin
1700 Employees
Turquoise Ridge- 1 hour north of Winnemucca
350 employees
Underground

5. Mining in Northern Nevada
Newmont (approximately 6000 employees)
Gold Quarry
Emigrant
Long Canyon
Chukar
Exodus
Pete Bajo
Leeville
Phoenix
Twin Creeks
All Mines are Rural and are over an hour transport to definitive care

6. What are the Hazards Surface Operations Open Pit Large Crew Sizes
The biggest Mobile Equipment in the world
Blasting
Fires
Process
Chemicals
Exploration
Remote Locations
Range Fires
Rotational injuries

7. What are the Hazards Underground Large Crews
Up to 70 people UG at any given time
Limited Entry and Exit
Portal
Shaft
Ventilation
Fires
DPM
Ground Control
Failure of Supports

8. Cortez Hills Open Pit

9. Open Pit Failure Rio Tinto Kennecott Copper slide
No employees were injured

10. Cortez hills Underground Mine

11. Underground support failure

12. Transporting Employees

13. How are mines ready Medical Responce Structural Fire Wild land Fire
BLS Or AEMT Licensed Ambulances
Barrick Nevada 160 Medical Responders EMR-AEMT Levels
Barrick Cortez Agreement with Crescent Valley Ambulance
Barrick Nevada Mutual Aid Agreements
Structural Fire
NFPA 600 Industrial Fire Brigade Trained Fire fighters
Barrick Nevada maintains 85 firefighters
Type 3 Fire Engine
Wild land Fire
Barrick Nevada has 50 “Red Carded” Fire Fighters
Type 6 Fire Engine
Lots of Equipment
MOU With The BLM

14. How are mines ready Confined Space Rescue Haz Mat Response Extrication
Barrick Nevada has confined space rescuers
Arizona Vortex
Haz Mat Response
Haz Mat responders trained from technician to specialist level
Level A Response Capabilities
Extrication
Hydraulic
Edraulic
Technical Rope Rescue
86 trained Rope rescue technicians
Underground Mine Rescue
CCBA’s

15. Training

16. Video
Barrick Global Mine Rescue Summit Video - TE Productions.mp4

17. Questions