Criminally linked employees are suspected of using explosives to attack a mining operation. Authorities are investigating why a group of workers detonated part of Poderosa’s BESS La Morena...
Tag - Illegal Mining
The NSW Resources Regulator has teamed up with the National Parks and Wildlife Service to target illegal fossicking in the Torrington State Conservation Area. Resources Regulator’s Director of...
Excavation site adjacent to Frazers Creek On 16 November 2020, Resources Regulator Inspectors accompanied by NSW Police, entered a property on Rickey’s Lane, Sapphire (near Inverell) after it was...
The collapse of an illegal gold mine in Chad has potentially killed thirty illegal miners. BBC reported that the mine is located in the Tibesti region known as the ‘wild west’ of Africa...
Mining giant Glencore has confirmed the deaths of illegal miners at a Congo operation. In a release this morning Glencore advised that one of its’ subsidiaries, Kamoto Copper Company (KCC), has...
Ghana’s Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources said the Government is ‘fed up with mining deaths’ following an accident in January 2019 that claimed the lived of 16 illegal miners...
At least nine illegal miners have died in a Zimbabwe mine explosion according to local news sources. The mine explosion reportedly occurred at the Jumbo Mine near Mazowe, 40 km north of Harare. A...
The NSW Resources Regulator has accepted an Enforceable Undertaking from Namoi Valley Bricks Pty Ltd in relation to unauthorised mining, a breach of Section 5 of the Mining Act. Namoi Valley Bricks...
The death toll has risen to 27 following a collapse at an illegal gold mine in Indonesia’s Bolaang Mongondow region of North Sulawesi. It is believed that up to one hundred people could have...
At least 7 people have died and dozens more are still trapped beneath the rubble of an illegal gold mine that collapsed in Indonesia, officials said Thursday, February 28, as rescuers frantically...
