Seventeen miners at a coal mine in southern Zambia survived gas suffocation while working underground, a mining official said on Tuesday. The accident happened in the early hours of Monday at Collum Coal Mine situated in Sinazongwe district at shaft 6 underground when suspected carbon monoxide gas filled the undergroundContinue Reading
DR Congo’s mines ministry has proposed lifting lockdowns at mining operations after workers went on strike to protest compulsory on-site confinements during the coronavirus outbreak. Human rights organisations said earlier this month that mining workers in the vast African country were being forced to stay in overcrowded, unsanitary accommodations. DuringContinue Reading
A toxic leak from an Angolan diamond mine has reportedly killed 12 people after polluting rivers hundreds of miles from the site. This comes via Eve Bazaiba, an environmental minister for the Democratic Republic of Congo, who also claimed that around 4,500 people had been left ill after the incident. The leakContinue Reading
GABORONE – Mining giant De Beers and the National Geographic Society have announced a partnership to protect the waters and endangered animals of Botswana’s iconic Okavango Delta. The vast UNESCO World Heritage wetland is threatened by climate change and agricultural activities. The five-year project, “Okavango Eternal,” will see De BeersContinue Reading
Centerra Gold Inc. of Canada has invested more than $ 3 billion over nearly 30 years to turn the gold outlook in remote areas of Kyrgyzstan into a thriving gold mine. Then in May, the mine was taken over by the authorities of the former Soviet Republic. Kyrgyzstan secret policeContinue Reading
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Mining Development has urged government to set up a mine safety fund that will be used to purchase rescue equipment in case of disaster. Committee chairperson Edmund Mkaratigwa (Shurugwi South) told Parliament on Wednesday that the fund must be set up by DecemberContinue Reading
Outside Anglo American Platinum’s Tumela mine shaft about 25 workers, many still in the overalls and hard hats they wore on their shift, sit patiently waiting for their coronavirus vaccines while vervet monkeys scamper over the roofs of nearby steel storage containers. They then file into a room where theirContinue Reading
CHILDREN from families living near mines find themselves in precarious situations that do not bode well for their rights and welfare. This was said recently by Ms Loyce Lema, the Executive Director of Environmental Human Rights Care and Gender Organisation (Envirocare) based in Makongo Juu, Dar es Salaam. Ms LemaContinue Reading
upport by a China-invested company, Namibia has heightened healthcare provision and enabling medical professionals in the country’s coastal Erongo region to perform their duties more easily amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Rossing mining company’s donation of medical supplies to seven health facilities worth over 1 million Namibian dollars (68,500 U.S. dollars)Continue Reading
A wall collapse at Nyrstar’s Immel Mine in eastern Knoxville County, Tennessee on Tuesday afternoon left two miners injured and another dead. Both of the injured were hospitalized, with one requiring surgery. A spokesperson for Immel said that the miner who died had worked at the mine for over 10Continue Reading
