Federal prosecutors in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state are seeking a court order for miner Vale to replace executives they accuse of disregarding safety procedures following two deadly mining disasters.
They have asked a court in Minas Gerais to name an …
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AUSTRALIA – Newcrest Mining’s Cadia Valley underground mine in New South Wales has successfully tested new technology from MacLean Engineering and Orica in a 30-day trial. The site used remote drilling, loading and wireless blasting to remove the worke…
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ARIZONA – Hexagon’s Mining division, together with IDS GeoRadar, also a Hexagon company, has launched an industry-first platform, which integrates safety systems with radar-based slope stability hazards. This platform is part of the newly released HxGN…
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VANCOUVER – Fatigue Science, a global provider of predictive human performance data, has launched ReadiAnalytics, a first-of-its-kind analytics platform. ReadiAnalytics delivers real-time, validated, and objective insights into workforce fatigue …
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Brazil has ordered the immediate closure of 47 mining dams that failed to certify their stability, with more than half of them belonging to Vale…
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EUROPE – Worldsensing and IDS GeoRadar, both in the monitoring technology space, cooperated to launch a comprehensive mine safety monitoring system. The integrated system will be the first in the world to offer surface, sub-surface and geospatial…
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The Mexican government will resume a search for the bodies of dozens of coal miners killed in a blast more than a decade ago, after mining firm Grupo Mexico returned the concession for the site to the government, officials said on Wednesday.
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ASX-listed Perenti, previously known as Ausdrill, has confirmed a security incident some 40 km from Canadian miner Semafo’s Boungou gold mine, in Burkina Faso. Reports have emerged that 37 workers have been killed, and more than 60 others injured when …
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TORONTO – Cementation Canada of North Bay, Ont. has been recognized as one of Canada’s safest employers for 2019. The gold award in the Mining and Natural Resources category was presented to Cementation during the Canada’s Safest Employers Awards gala&…
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ONTARIO – Last week a crew from De Beers Group’s Victor mine site near Attawapiskat responded to an emergency call to aid downed balloonists 100 km west of the now closed mine. The balloonists, from the United States and Poland,…
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