" The billionaire is bringing lumps of rock from the bottom of the San Jose mine as gifts for both the Prime Minister and the Queen, who he will meet at Buckingham Palace after a last-minute invitation, according to The Times. President Pinera will visit Churchill's War Rooms...
The capsule the Chilean Navy constructed traveled up and down through the earth a distance of 33 miles in total to save 33 trapped Chilean miners. The courage, faith and patriotism of the nation, the rescuers and the miners have now traveled across the globe to touch every...
opinion by lakeall | 1 year ago 182 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
Lack of livelihood opportunities is forcing hundreds of poor Indians take up illegal mining in Jharkhand. Here is an IndiaUnheard video by Mukesh Rajak that captures the ugly dark truth Illegal coal...
created by stellasglobe | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 605 views | 14 recommendations | 3 comments
GHALLANAI: An other mine wounded security personnel seriously when it went off in Chenari area of tehsil <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Safi bordering Afghanistan some 65 kilometers to the north from regional headquarters, Ghallanai, on Monday morning, sources...
created by Khalid Nisar | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 75 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
A mine killed a security personnel and seriously wounded 2 others in Ashraf Abad area of tehsil Khawaizai bordering Afghanistan some 50 kilometers to the north from regional headquarters, Ghallanai, on Wednesday morning, tribal and official sources told.
The sources said...
created by Khalid Nisar | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 87 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
This mornings news uncovered a story by CBC Canada North that along with the seal hunter stranded on the Arctic ice flow spurred the birth of the following article... ""The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled...
opinion by Jessica Tucker | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 171 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
Greenpeace activists have shut down a 155,000 barrel a day operation in Shell's Albian Sands mine just north of Fort McMurray, which is located in northern Alberta, Canada. The 25 activists from Canada, the U.S. and France are trying to attract attention to the...
created by Annina Bergman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 391 views | 28 recommendations | 9 comments
Blast in mines and related deaths are not new in China.In latest incident of Mines blast in coal mine blast in Henan province killed at-least 35 miners. State media says that at the time of blast 93 miners were...
created by Amitjha | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 150 views | 48 recommendations | 2 comments
Each inches must be controlled and demined for that the government of srilanka has purchased special machines from slovakia to remove landmines laid in the past war time, with the intention of further...
created by sathyajith | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 481 views | 5 recommendations | 5 comments
Mines in china comes in news only for wrong reasons, this time it is death of 11 miners in Shanxi due to gas explosion. More than 3200 people died inmines related accidents last year."At least 11 people have died in a gas explosion at a mine in the northern Chinese Shanxi,...
created by Amitjha | 2 years ago 139 views | 14 recommendations | 2 comments
14 miners are missing and presumed dead after an underground coal mine exploded in northern Slovakia. The miners had been putting out a fire in the Handlova mine when it exploded, said the mine owner. The explosion occured in an unused section of the mine, and is thought to...
created by Annina Bergman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 122 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
" Lobby group Human Rights Watch has accused Zimbabwe's army of using forced labour, including children, to mine diamonds in the east of the country. Local villagers who do not co-operate with the military are...
created by Babel-Fish | 2 years ago 155 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
This is my fourth or fifth story, may be more, on chines mine blast death in last few months.Latest report from central chinese mines says that atleast 18 people died in a mine blast.This tragic incident happened at a mine in Chexou city in Hunan province.Last year 3200...
created by Amitjha | 2 years ago 103 views | 2 recommendations | 2 comments
In yet another incident of mine related accident 16 people are fighting with death in flooded mine in north east province of China.How safe are Chinese mines for the workers? Do they follow the standard safety...
created by Amitjha | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 119 views | 22 recommendations | 1 comment
UPDATE MARCH 8th: I'm happy to report that things are looking up for the Sleeper family - it looks like they'll be getting private financing to keep their family "cave", after all. Here's an...
created by Mary Richard | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1434 views | 61 recommendations | 18 comments