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Mayfly To Be Protected Habitat at Expense of Coal Mining Exploration in US Mountaintops Coal Mine
Mayflies may seal the fate of mountaintop mining in the Appalachian hills of the eastern U.S.
Companies such as Massey Energy Co. that mine coal there by stripping mountain peaks and dumping debris in streams are being asked by the Environmental Protection Agency for the first time to safeguard the mayfly, one of the oldest winged [...]
Anglo American Coal Mining Exploration Project Close After Mine Worker Death
Anglo American Plc’s , South African coal unit said on Tuesday it had shut a coal mine for one day after a worker died at the facility, but could not immediately quantify the lost output.
600 Underground Coal Mines Allow Use Conveyer-belt Tunnels
The nation’s nearly 600 underground coal mines will be allowed to use conveyer-belt tunnels as ventilation shafts and be required to install airtight shelters for trapped workers under new federal regulations announced Tuesday.
Mine Exploration Explosion in Rusia, 12 Mining Workers Killed
At least 12 people were killed in an explosion at a mine in Arctic Russia that extracts raw materials for fertiliser production, officials said on Friday, the worst accident this year in Russia’s mining industry.
U.S Mining Industry Future Awaiting Government Mine Exploration and Investment Policy
The U.S. mining industry is waiting warily to see whether the federal government adopts drug-testing regulations in the waning days of the Bush administration.
The rules would expand drug testing to coal mines. The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration contends the regulations, which are still being drafted, will make mining significantly safer.
Usibelli’s Estimate Coal Mine Resource in Alaska’s
Steve Denton, Usibelli’s vice president for business development, believes his company could supply coal to a new mine-mouth coal-fired power plant, such as one proposed by Usibelli at Emma Creek, for $1.50 to $2 per million British Thermal Units, which could be one-third to half the cost that gas brought to Interior Alaska from the [...]
S Africa targets 20 percent cut in mining deaths
South Africa’s mining industry, which records an average of 200 fatalaties every year, is seeking to reduce death rates by at least 20 percent by 2013, the chamber of mines said on Thursday.
“To be world class by 2013, an annual milestone of reducing fatality rates by at least 20 percent a year is needed,” the [...]
Alternative Rescuers utah miner accident
Rescuers trying to reach six coal miners trapped in a collapsed Utah mine broke through into their presumed location with a second, wider drill yesterday and prepared to lower a camera into the cavity.
Mine co-owner Robert Murray said it would take a couple of hours to pull the nearly 20cm drill bit out of the [...]
South African mining accidents killed 199 workers last year
Mining accidents in South Africa, the world`s largest producer of platinum and gold, killed 199 workers in 2006, three fewer than a year earlier.
Most of the deaths occured in mines with deep shafts.
Gold mines recorded 113 deaths and 40 fatalities occurred in platinum mines, the Chamber of Mines said in an emailed statement on Thursday.
