Platinum group metals miner Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat), together with the North West Department of Health, has officially opened the 200-bed Royal Bafokeng Platinum Field Hospital, in Rustenburg, at a cost of about R10-million, to support governm…
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PERU – Nineteen workers at Trevali Mining’s Santander mine in Peru have tested positive for the coronavirus and the company has suspended operations at the site. Trevali said the workers were asymptomatic and put into quarantine. Further testing will b…
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Vancouver-headquartered Trevali Mining has suspended operations at its Santander zinc/lead mine, in Peru, after 19 workers tested positive for Covid-19.
The company said on Friday that the workers were asymptomatic and that they were in preventative q…
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ECUADOR – Aurania Resources reported that, following the partial lifting of COVID-related restrictions, its field teams are operational at the Lost Cities – Cutucu project in southeastern Ecuador. In a media statement, the company’s chairman and …
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Lesotho has opened up more border posts to speed up the return to work of locked-down foreign mineworkers. As reported by Mining Weekly last week, 12 000 mineworkers had one border post at their disposal on re-entering South Africa from Lesotho and t…
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Six mineworkers have succumbed to coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, Minerals Council South Africa said on Thursday. Back at work so far and screened daily are 272 770 mineworkers, on which 16 994 tests have been conducted, yielding 1 796 pos…
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This week’s episode features an interview with Agnico Eagle Mines vice chair and chief executive officer Sean Boyd at the Canadian Mining Symposium, held on Zoom on June 16, 2020. Northern Miner group publisher Anthony Vaccaro asked Boyd how the compan…
Poland’s JSW, the European Union’s biggest coking coal producer, has launched a campaign to defend miners who it says have faced public abuse and unfair blame on social media over a rise in coronavirus infections.
Infections among miners have been di…
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With hundreds of people living and working in close proximity, mines — and the camps that house their workers — seemed like fertile territory for the coronavirus to spread.
So far, the global mining sector has yet to face the kind of outbreaks that pa…
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TORONTO – A work stoppage at Iamgold‘s Rosebel gold mine in Suriname has forced the company to suspend operations as the mid-tier reports its first cases of COVID-19 at the mine. The company says seven personnel at the mine have…
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