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Welcome to MineARC’s Resource Hub.
Here you’ll find a collection of content to provide guidance, offer insights and practical support. Uncover how refuge chambers work, learn about controlled environments for plant growth or understand servicing best practice.
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Digital Gas Monitoring For Underground Environments
Environmental monitoring is a critical aspect of underground safety; technology has evolved to developed integrated digital gas monitoring for underground worksites to include in-chamber and site-wide fixed gas monitoring and handheld devices.
Why Can’t We Stay Inside in a Chemical Emergency?
Yes and no. Whether you can safely stay insides during a chemical emergency or hazardous event will depend on the shelter, your environment, and the situation.

Will a Refuge Chamber Let Gases Inside? How Does a Refuge Chamber Remain Airtight?
A refuge chamber has two critical systems that work together to prevent gases getting inside and support an airtight environment…

Digital Gas Monitoring For Underground Environments
Environmental monitoring is a critical aspect of underground safety; technology has evolved to developed integrated digital gas monitoring for underground worksites to include in-chamber and site-wide fixed gas monitoring and handheld devices.

Fresh Air Base vs. Refuge Chamber in Underground Emergencies
Refuge Chambers and Fresh Air Bases (FAB) are two types of shelters used in underground mines, particularly during emergencies. These shelters can appear similar, and often mistakenly the terms are interchanged, yet they are vastly different.

Externally Supported Mode: Understanding Refuge Chambers
During daily activities or emergencies, refuge chambers can operate in an externally mode. This state occurs when a refuge station is active and remains connected to primary utilities.

What Overpressure Can a Chemical Shelter Handle: Understanding Blast Ratings
After an explosion the sudden release of energy, results in a blast wave… generally measured in overpressure…Chemical shelters…

Will a Refuge Chamber Let Gases Inside? How Does a Refuge Chamber Remain Airtight?
A refuge chamber has two critical systems that work together to prevent gases getting inside and support an airtight environment…

Why Can’t We Stay Inside in a Chemical Emergency?
Yes and no. Whether you can safely stay insides during a chemical emergency or hazardous event will depend on the shelter, your environment, and the situation.

Refuge Chamber Technology

Connectivity & Monitoring for Emergency Refuge Chambers

Standby Mode: Understanding Refuge Chambers

GuardIAN Connect Coaxial Cable: Underground Connectivity

Stand-Alone Mode: Understanding Refuge Chambers
A growing library of how-to tutorials, explainer videos, new products, interviews, and so much more


Controlled Environment Monitoring Made Easy
Increasing flexibility and control in growth chambers through HMI control incorporation. From dials and analogue switches to advanced control system technology – How HMI controls are improving research in controlled environments.

Ammonia: Health and Safety Hazards Fact Sheet
Ammonia hazards can occur during manufacture, use, and transportation. Knowing the health and safety hazards of anhydrous ammonia are vital to ERPs.

Rethinking Greenhouses for Agricultural Research
Understanding how extreme weather is impacting the feasibility of greenhouses for agricultural research.