Several people have been killed in Liberia in an accident at an abandoned gold mine, the West African country’s mines minister said on Tuesday.

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - 22:11:39

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More than 40 artisanal gold miners were killed in southwest Mali last week after the shaft they were working in collapsed, Mali’s mines ministry said on Wednesday.

Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 23:27:56

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Mining News Pro - Fourteen informal gold miners were killed in a tunnel collapse in Suriname on Monday afternoon on a concession belonging to a subsidiary of Chinese state miner Zijin Mining, a Surinamese official said.

Wednesday, November 22, 2023 - 23:23:48

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Mining News Pro - At least four people were killed, including one Chinese national, in an explosion at a granite quarry in western Ghana owned by Chinese company Omni Quarries late on Saturday, local officials said on Sunday.

Monday, September 11, 2023 - 19:03:22

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Mining News Pro - Four people have been killed in a collapse in a coal mine in Vietnam’s mining centre of Quang Ninh, the state-run Thanh Nien newspaper reported on Sunday.

Monday, August 28, 2023 - 22:38:34

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Mining News Pro - Toronto Ontario-based mining company Largo Inc said on Saturday that an employee had died due to an accident at the chemical plant on a mine in Brazil.

Monday, July 17, 2023 - 22:37:59

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Mining News Pro - Ten people were killed, six have non-life-threatening injuries and one was unharmed following the collapse of a section of a mountain at a coal mine in China’s northwestern Gansu province.

Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:32:27

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Mining News Pro - Three miners were killed in an explosion at the Gaisky ore mining and processing plant in Russia’s Orenburg region, Russian news agencies quoted the regional prosecutor’s office as saying on Saturday.

Monday, April 25, 2022 - 13:06:59

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Mining News Pro - About 60 people were killed and dozens more wounded on Monday in an explosion at an informal gold mining site in southwest Burkina Faso, state television reported, citing local officials.

Tuesday, February 22, 2022 - 12:53:16

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Mining News Pro - At least 18 people were killed on Sunday in an artisanal gold mine collapse in southern Niger, the local mayor said on Monday.

Tuesday, November 9, 2021 - 11:15:08

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Mining News Pro - Five gendarmes were killed and four were injured when a convoy they were escorting to an Australian-owned gold mine in southern Mali came under attack by militants, the army said.

Thursday, September 30, 2021 - 13:50:30

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Mining News Pro - Silver Lake Resources has modified its operating strategy at the Mount Monger gold mine in Western Australia due to a lack of skilled labour causing productivity and cost issues.

Monday, July 26, 2021 - 12:43:31

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Mining News Pro - Hochschild Mining said on Friday that 27 workers were killed while 13 more injured in a road accident in Peru involving a bus operated by one of the precious metals miner’s contractors.

Saturday, June 19, 2021 - 14:12:23

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Mining News Pro - A landslide at an artisanal gold mine has killed at least 15 people in northeastern Guinea, the government said on Sunday.

Monday, May 10, 2021 - 13:07:51

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Mining News Pro - Six people were killed in a fire at a gold mine in eastern China’s Shandong province, while four others were rescued, state media reported on Wednesday.

Wednesday, February 17, 2021 - 10:30:43 PM

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Mining News Pro - Eleven people, including one child, were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday when rebels attacked two military posts in the southeastern mining hub of Lubumbashi, local authorities said.

Monday, February 15, 2021 - 8:01:11 PM

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Mining News Pro - Gold miner Harmony Gold Mining says an employee at its Target mine, in Welkom, has died following a seismic event that triggered a fall of ground on February 3.

Thursday, February 4, 2021 - 3:40:58 PM

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Mining News Pro - At least 50 people are thought to have died when an artisanal gold mine collapsed near Kamituga in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday afternoon, a local mining NGO said.

Saturday, September 12, 2020 - 12:08:17 PM

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Mining News Pro - Diversified miner South32 has reported that an employee of a contract mining company, Modi Mining, died following an accident at subsidiary South Africa Energy Coal’s Ifalethu Colliery, on May 27.

Friday, May 29, 2020 - 4:13:55 PM

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Mining News Pro - Rio Tinto has created more than 300 jobs to support its iron ore business in Western Australia.

Thursday, May 14, 2020 - 12:50:18 PM

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Mining News Pro - Two people died when an informal gold mine collapsed in western Liberia early on Tuesday, the National Disaster Management Agency said.

Wednesday, May 6, 2020 - 1:20:01 PM

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Mining News Pro - A landslide at a Myanmar jade mine killed 14 people including at least one policemen in the early hours of Sunday as earth and mud engulfed a guard post, and four people were missing and feared dead, police said.

Monday, July 29, 2019 - 10:21:50 AM

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Mining News Pro - Fourteen miners were killed in an eastern Rwandan tin mine after a hill collapsed on them after heavy rains, an official said on Monday.

Tuesday, January 22, 2019 - 10:34:10 AM

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Mining News Pro - News broke early today that Canadian Kirk Woodman, who went missing on Jan. 15, was found dead the following day in Burkina Faso. He was abducted Tuesday night by a dozen gunmen from a site owned by his employer Progress Minerals of White Rock, B.C. Woodman was the company’s VP exploration.

Friday, January 18, 2019 - 12:22:59 PM

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Mining News Pro - At least 30 Afghans were killed on Sunday when the tunnel they were digging in to mine gold in northern Afghanistan collapsed, officials said.

Monday, January 7, 2019 - 6:09:01 PM

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