On the morning of Saturday, 15 February 2014, Wayne Fowlie was killed by a roof fall during a major decline development at the Harlequin Gold Mine near Norseman. 59-year-old Wayne had been tasked...
Category - Emergencies & Rescue
Pike River Recovery Agency coal mine recovery workers are being trained in techniques for the gathering and preventing disturbance of forensic evidence at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand as they...
As thousands of angry Brazilians march the streets of Brazil in response to Vale dam collapse and the management of the Brumadinho tailings dam risks, a video emerged today showing the moments of...
The Indian Navy diving team has recovered the second body of a mineworker from the Meghalaya mine in India. 15 mineworkers have been trapped in the mine since 13 December 2018. According to available...
In a surprise statement, the Vale Chief Executive Officer has spoken out on the Corrego do Feijao mine tailings dam disaster. He told a press conference that there were 300 contractors and employees...
UPDATED 27/1 17:08 The death toll from the collapse of a Vale tailings dam collapse in Brazil has risen to 40 (from 34 AM 27/1) with hundreds still missing. Vale has confirmed that as of this...
UPDATE: The Spanish mining rescue team has found the body of a boy in the borehole missing since January 13. In one of the most challenging mining rescue team efforts in recent times, the team from...
Sixteen miners are confirmed dead at a gold mine in Ghana run by a Chinese mining company. The exact cause of the fatalities is being investigated, but Ghana local media have reported that the miners...
A mines rescue team has been mobilised to a hill in the Spanish countryside to rescue a two year old boy (Julen Rosello) who fell fell down a 250mm wide, 110 metre deep borehole on the 13th January...
At least 14 people, among them seven women, were killed when a hill slope stability issue resulted in a mine collapse in eastern Rwamagana district in Rwanda, a local official said. Confirming the...
The Pike River recovery team have continued their preparations for re-entry to recover the bodies of 29 miners trapped in an explosion in 2010. This week a number of team members undertook training...
A video has emerged of the conveyor belt fire at the Cape Lambert port facility last Thursday. It is believed that the fire originated from hot work during a shutdown at the Rio Tinto JV Robe River...
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