Queensland Natural Resources, Mines and Energy Minister Dr Anthony Lynham has called an urgent meeting between the government, representatives of the mining industry, and workers following a fatality at the Baralaba coal mine, and a “serious incident” …
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The Brazilian unit of steel group ArcelorMittal moved 30 families from their houses near its Serra Azul mine in the town of Itatiaiuçu, Minas Gerais state, as a precautionary action after it ran a new risk evaluation of a dam close to the mine. The com…
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With cases of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (black lung disease) and progressive massive fibrosis spiking, two unions have called on the Mine Safety and Health Administration to step up standards to protect miners from silica dust. The United Mine Worke…
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A 38-year old female trackless crew leader was killed after being struck by a rock ejected from the face of Gold Fields’ South Deep mine, on Sunday, following a series of four seismic events in quick succession.
The gold miner reported that three of …
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International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) member companies recorded 50 fatalities in 2018, compared with the 51 recorded in 2017 and the 63 recorded in 2016.
Eleven of ICMM’s 27 member companies reported no fatalities in 2018, compared with ei…
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Following the Chief Inspector of Mines’ publication of a guidance note on Medico-Legal Investigations of Mine Deaths, which aims to provide certainty about the processes to be followed in the event that the cause of a death at a mine is not immediately…
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At 1.00 PM, local time, on January 25 this year, the deactivated Tailings Dam 1 of the Córrego do Feijão (“Bean Stream”) iron ore mine, owned by Brazil’s world-renowned mining group Vale and located near the small town of Brumadinho in the Brazilian St…
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JSE- and NYSE-listed Sibanye-Stillwater has resumed underground operations at its Thembelani shaft, in Rustenburg, following an incident that resulted in 1 800 workers being held underground on Tuesday.
The shaft has now been certified safe for norm…
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JSE- and NYSE-listed Sibanye-Stillwater has resumed underground operations at its Thembelani shaft, in Rustenburg, following an incident that resulted in 1 800 workers being held underground on Tuesday.
The shaft has now been certified safe for norm…
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All 1 800 workers who had been trapped at a Sibanye Gold Ltd. underground platinum mine in South Africa have been brought to the surface, the Department of Mineral Resources said in a tweet.
Efforts had been under way to hoist up those remaining after…
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