UK Coal and global machinery supplier Joy Mining Ltd. were ordered to pay a total of £568,000 in fines and costs for serious breaches of safety that led to the death of West Yorkshire pit worker Ian Cameron.
On 18 July, UK Coal Ltd., of Harworth, Nottinghamshire, and Joy Mining Machinery …
First Uranium has reported that an accident at its Ezulwini gold mine killed a drill operator. It is the fourth death at the South African mine in the last twelve months.
The drill operator was killed by a collapse in the mine. In August, a man was killed in another accident, which is under interna…
Nature Québec and Pour que le Quebec ait meilleure mine say asbestos should not be mined because is too dangerous for human health, reports MontrealGazette.
Debate about whether to label chrysotile asbestos as a hazardous material under the United Nations' Rotterdam Convention began on Tuesday, …
A landslide caused by heavy rainfall has killed four workers; another two workers were rescued.
A seismic event registering 2.4 on the Richter scale has killed two workers and injured another three.