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Shanxi Puda Coal Received Approval to Consolidate Four Additional Coal Mines in Pinglu County
In order to improve production efficiency and safety in the workplace and to reduce coal mine accidents, in early 2009, the province of Shanxi, the government issued a policy requiring the merger and consolidation of companies in the coal mining province of Shanxi. In accordance with government policy, large corporations coal production given the opportunity [...]
Inspector Shortage Hampers West Virginia Coal Mine Safety Effort (Update)
An inability to retain inspectors is hurting West Virginia’s efforts to make the inherently dangerous business of coal mining safer.
Faced with a turnover rate topping 20 percent, the state is scrambling — for the second consecutive year — to perform five mandatory annual inspections at each of the state’s 230 coal mines.
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.
West Virginia Struggle to Maintain Coal Mine Exploration
An inability to retain inspectors is hurting West Virginia’s efforts to make the inherently dangerous business of coal mining safer.
Faced with a turnover rate topping 20 percent, the state is scrambling — for the second consecutive year — to perform five mandatory annual inspections at each of the state’s 230 coal mines.
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.
Pike River Coal Report Mining Exploration Result at West Coast
Pike River Coal said today it has struck coal at its West Coast mine after two years of tunnelling to reach one of the most valuable coal deposits in the country.
Tunnellers cut through the last few metres of an access tunnel stretching nearly 2.3km under the Paparoa Range to intersect with the Brunner seam of [...]
China Mining Exploration Safety Mine Exploration Equipment
Fewer people died in China’s often deadly mines in the first seven months of 2008 compared with the same period last year, a safety official said on Saturday, but warned that the situation remained serious. The death toll was 1,631 in the January to July period, a fall of 24 percent, spokesman for the State [...]
Time For Find Solution Trouble In Mining Industry
Lihir Gold has reported a 28 per cent slump in first quarter output, blaming the result on a planned maintenance shutdown in Papua New Guinea.
It caps a difficult two months for Australia’s major gold producers, which have lost nearly a third of their market value.
And the recent round of resource company production reports are pointing [...]
Mining for Human Lives : World’s growing use of coal carries high cost in human lives
Digging coal deep underground, Luo Xianglai learned to listen hard to the sounds the rocks made when struck with his pickax.
A dull thud usually meant solid rock and safety. A whistling noise signalled an impending cave-in.
“Usually you could tell it was coming,” said Luo, a squat 33-year-old with broad shoulders, a buzz cut and a [...]
