170 artisanal miners have reportedly died in a jade mine in North Myanmar after a land slide caused flooding to an open pit mine where workers were scouring for jade. The incident occurred in the...
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An Afghanistan coal mine explosion has killed 18 mineworkers in the countries Samangan province. According to local news media, two workers were killed immediately from the blast on the exterior of...
WORLD OF DANGER: LIGHT VEHICLE SAFETY On November 5, 2019, Kenny L. Mattson started work at 4:55 a.m. Mattson worked alone, performing maintenance at various working places. At approximately 9:35 a.m...
A group of Aussie mining companies are taking up the fight against COVID-19 in Africa. The Australia-Africa Minerals & Energy Group (AAMEG) is proud to be working with a number of its member...
Two underground mineworkers at a US-based Arch Coal operation received serious injuries following a rib fall at a West Virginian mine last Tuesday. Officials say that the mineworkers received serious...
The Chinese Government has launched a probe into the failure of Yichun Luming Mining Co Ltd tailings storage facility which saw contaminated water sources more than 100 kilometres downstream of a...
Newmont has placed a range of mining operations under care and maintenance as a component of their risk mitigation strategy associated with COVID-19. The company has confirmed it is planning to scale...
Prosecutors in Brazil’s, State of Minas Gerais have laid charges over the Vale Brumadinho Tailings Dam collapse that claimed the life of approximately 270 people. The prosecutors laid homicide...
Five mineworkers have been killed in a coal mine disaster at a coking coal mine owned by China’s State-Owned Datong Coal Mine Group. The mineworkers were working at the Shanxi Tongmei Group...
Charges have been laid in relation to a Caterpillar 745C ADT incident that left a mineworker dead. The Canadian Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission has laid sixteen charges in the Nunavut...
South African miner Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited has confirmed a fatality has occurred at one of its’ operations. In a statement that company said that one of its’ employees...
The New Zealand Pike River Recovery team has successfully reached the 170-metre mark as part of the recovery operation of the mine drift. A team this week crossed through the 170-metre seal and...
