Elder hurt in clash between Argentinian Indigenous community, police over mining project
Representatives from the Peñas Negras Indigenous community, in northwestern Argentina, clashed with heavily armed police officers who were escorting Elevado Gold personnel up the Alto de Salle hill, in the Catamarca province.
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Namibia orders police to stop Chinese firm’s lithium exports
Mining News Pro - Namibia’s government has ordered police to stop Xinfeng Investments from transporting lithium ore inside the country and from exporting it, accusing the Chinese miner of violating the country’s ban on critical raw mineral exports.
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South Africa plans special police force to combat illegal miners
Mining News Pro - The South African Police Service will establish a specialized force to combat illegal mining that’s robbing the nation of revenue and hampering operations at mineral companies.
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Peru calls for new Las Bambas talks as police hint at eviction plan
Mining News Pro - Peru’s government on Tuesday called for a new round of talks with protesting indigenous communities that have forced MMG Ltd’s Las Bambas mine to suspend operations for over a month, as the police suggested that they were ready to intervene.
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Peru police carry out second day of evictions at halted Las Bambas mine
Mining News Pro - Peruvian police on Thursday are carrying out a second day of evictions at MMG’s Las Bambas copper mine, seeking to remove a remaining indigenous community that had camped inside company property in a protest, a community adviser told Reuters.
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Barrick’s Tanzania gold mine hit by new police abuse accusations
Mining News Pro - A corporate watchdog is alleging that local police are killing and assaulting villagers around a Tanzanian mine owned by Barrick Gold Corp. The Canadian miner denies that it is responsible for police conduct.
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New Zealand police finds human remains 11 years after mine disaster
Mining News Pro - Human remains have been discovered at the site of one of New Zealand’s worst mining disasters more than a decade after the explosion that trapped and killed 29 men.
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Eight people suffocate at Burkina Faso mine after police fire tear gas
Mining News Pro - Eight people suffocated to death when police in Burkina Faso used tear gas against unauthorised gold miners at Nordgold's Bissa mine, a prosecutor said on Thursday.
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Busa calls for 24-hour curfew, full deployment of army, police and reserve forces
Mining News Pro - The violence and damage to property that have overwhelmed parts of the country must be stopped immediately, Business Unity South Africa (Busa) asserted on July 15, as the devastating loss of life and destruction of property continues, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.
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Mexico to launch new police force to protect mining operations
Mining News Pro - Officers from Mexico’s Federal Protection Service (SPF in Spanish) are to form a new police force whose sole purpose will be to keep the country’s mining operations safe.
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Gold mine gangs tote AK-47s to outgun South African police
Mining News Pro - At 10 p.m. on the second Sunday in December, a criminal platoon armed with AK-47 and R6 assault rifles stormed one of the largest gold mines still operating on South Africa’s fabled Witwatersrand basin.
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Police among 18 feared killed in landslide at Myanmar jade mine
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.
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