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16 hours ago · Jakarta, Indonesia -. A landslide triggered by torrential rains crashed onto an unauthorized gold mining operation on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 11 people, officials said ...
4 days ago · GOMA, Congo (AP) — A militia attack on a gold mine in northeastern Congo killed six Chinese miners and two Congolese soldiers, a civil society group said Thursday, the latest assault as violence worsens in the resource-rich region.
5 days ago · GOMA, Congo -- A militia attack on a gold mine in northeastern Congo killed six Chinese miners and two Congolese soldiers, a civil society group said Thursday, the latest assault as violence worsens in the resource-rich region.
1 day ago · Photographer returns to mines he shot in strike 'war'. “I was planning to go and find a war or something when I finished my course. And in a way the war was on my doorstep.”. The “war” referred to by photographer Roger Tiley is the 1984-85 miners’ strike that began a few short months before he was due to finish his degree in Newport ...
1 day ago · The analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found the suicide rate for men in the mining industry is 72 per 100,000, based on 2021 data. The rate for male construction workers was nearly as alarming, at 56 per 100,000. “Suicide prevention in the workplace is critical,” said Amanda Sussell, lead author of the report, in a ...
4 days ago · As the operation was ongoing, Somali forces shot down three American Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters using RPG-7s, with two crashing deep in hostile territory. A desperate defense of the two downed helicopters began and fighting lasted through the night to defend the survivors of the crashes.
2 days ago · On this day, 8 August 1956, an accident at the Bois du Cazier coal mine in Marcinelle, Charleroi, triggered a devastating fire that took the lives of 262 miners, leaving only 13 survivors. More than half of the victims were Italian.
