Death toll at Indonesia smelter fire rises to 18, operation halted
The death toll from a fire at an Indonesian nickel smelter has risen to 18 as of Tuesday from 13 on Sunday, local police said, while operations at the smelter remain suspended as authorities investigate the cause of the incident.
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Death toll from fire at ArcelorMittal mine in Kazakhstan rises to four
Mining News Pro - The death toll from a fire at an ArcelorMittal coal mine in Kazakhstan rose to four after the body of another worker was found, the group’s local mining unit ArcelorMittal Temirtau said on Saturday.
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Death toll rises after coal mine collapses in northern China
Mining News Pro - The collapse of a coal mine in northern China has claimed four lives with 49 people still missing, state broadcaster CCTV reported Thursday.
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LME says it saved nickel market from $20 billion ‘death spiral’
Mining News Pro - The LME on Monday provided its most detailed account yet of the historic short squeeze this year when prices soared 250% in little over 24 hours, in a filing outlining its defense against lawsuits from Elliott Investment Management and Jane Street.
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Chile rethinks mine safety after worker deaths and expanding sinkhole
Mining News Pro - Chile is taking another look at health in safety in its mines after two workers died on a mining construction project in July and a giant sinkhole more recently opened up near a copper mine.
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Codelco resuming work at halted projects after deaths
Mining News Pro - Chile state-owned copper miner Codelco has begun to gradually restart two of its ongoing growth projects, which were halted last week following the death of two workers this month at different mine sites.
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Codelco to restart some mining projects after worker deaths
Mining News Pro - Chile’s state-owned Codelco, the world’s top copper miner, expects to gradually restart operations at some of its mining projects on Monday, following the death of two workers earlier this month, the company said in a statement on Sunday.
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Codelco halts mining projects after reporting second worker death
Mining News Pro - Chile’s state-owned Codelco, the world’s top copper producer, said on Wednesday it was temporarily halting construction of all mining projects after reporting the death of two workers in less than a month.
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How charge, discharge cycles make li-ion batteries bleed to death
Mining News Pro - Detailed CT scans of the inside of lithium-ion batteries revealed that there is a link between cracks that form in the devices’ structure and the depletion of vital liquids that carry charge.
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Research finds four areas of concern when it comes to mining deaths in Western Australia
Mining News Pro - After conducting a two-year-long study, researchers at Edith Cowan University identified that four main pathways are regularly associated with mining fatalities in Western Australia.
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Zimbabwean mines now `death traps`
Mining News Pro - An investigation by the auditor general Mildred Chiri revealed that a number of mining operations across the country do not adhere to occupational health and safety regulations, exposing miners to dangerous working conditions.
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Coronavirus deaths hit ArcelorMittal plant in Mexico-union
Mining News Pro - Twenty-one workers at a steel plant owned by ArcelorMittal in the Mexican port city of Lazaro Cardenas have died from covid-19, the steelworkers’ trade union said.
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Codelco hit by third coronavirus death
Mining News Pro - Chilean state miner Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, on Wednesday reported the death of a third worker who had contracted the new coronavirus.
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Queensland passes law to jail mining bosses over deaths
Mining News Pro - Australia’s state of Queensland has passed a law that would see mining executives spend up to 20 years in jail, and companies hit with fines of up to A$13 million ($8.6m) if found criminally negligent over deaths at their operations.
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First Quantum halts Cobre Panama over covid-19 death
Mining News Pro - First Quantum Minerals announced Tuesday that the company has received an order from the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Panama (MINSA) to temporarily suspend labour activities at its Panamanian subsidiary as a sanitary control measure due to covid-19.
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Death of coal financing is exaggerated as China steps up
Mining News Pro - Moves by some of the world’s biggest banks to end coal financing for the sake of the planet was supposed to create major headaches for companies like Whitehaven Coal.
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Australia’s Coronado halts operations at mine after worker death
Mining News Pro - Metallurgical coal producer Coronado Global Resources said on Monday it had suspended operations at its only mine in Australia after a worker was killed there.
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Safety Commission files charges against Baffinland for worker’s death
Mining News Pro - The Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission filed 16 charges in the Nunavut Court of Justice against Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation accusing the company of failing to keep safe a main road used to haul iron ore, which caused the death of a 63-year-old truck driver.
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Gloria coal mine death toll rises to 18
Mining News Pro - Rescue and body retrieval workers on Friday afternoon brought to the surface 13 more bodies of suspected copper cable thieves from the underground area at Gloria coal mine near Middelburg in Mpumalanga, provincial police spokesman Brigadier Leonard Hlathi said.
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Death toll rises to 58 as hope dims after Brazil dam collapse
Mining News Pro - Brazilian rescuers searched into the night on Sunday for hundreds of people missing after a burst mining dam triggered a deadly mudslide, as the death toll rose to 58 and was expected to keep climbing more than two days after the disaster.
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Chile`s Supreme Court signals death knell for Kinross gold mine
Mining News Pro - Chile`s Supreme Court upheld an environmental order for a gold mine owned by Canada`s Kinross Gold to close its water pumping wells, the environmental regulator said on Wednesday, bringing the curtain down on a long-running dispute that sparked the Toronto-based miner`s retreat from Chile.
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The death of a worker in the Gohar mine / fall from the scaffolding Metal skeleton was the cause of the death
Mining News Pro - The worker of one of the contracting companies of the mine died before the fall of an eight-meter-high metal skeleton heights at work.
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South Africa: 2 Suspected Illegal Miners Crushed to Death After Hole Collapses
Mining News Pro - Two men believed to have been mining illegally were killed in Kleinsee in the Northern Cape on Monday.
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South Africa: Parly Committee Lashes Out At Mine Bosses After 4 More Sibanye-Stillwater Deaths
Mining News - Parliament`s portfolio committee on mineral resources is demanding answers from Sibanye-Stillwater`s managers on Tuesday after the death of four miners, and the disappearance of at least one more.
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Sixth death in platinum belt in three months
Mining News Agency - British platinum mine giant Lonmin has raised following the death of employee Tholakele Dlunga this week, the sixth in the platinum belt in the North West in the past three months.
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