Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hussain Ahamad Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 05/01/2024. In the application, the allegation was in respect of illegal mining of earth from the nearby agricultural field by brick kilns in an area in Muzaffarnagar district. Pits were …
Two mine workers were killed while another received serious injuries when a boulder of salt fell on them at Golewali salt mines on Sunday. According to police, Imran, Riaz and Muhammad Sadiq were busy in their routine work in salt mine when all of sudden a boulder of salt fell …
Landslides triggered by several days of heavy rains killed 10 people and about 20 more were missing in a mining village in the southern Philippines, local government officials said on Monday. About 30 small-scale miners were rescued with minor injuries after they were pulled out from under tonnes of mud …
New technology pinpoints location of trapped miners faster on march 13, eight miners were trapped and killed inside a coal mine in South Garo Hills, Meghalaya. In February, last year, four miners died of mine collapse in southwest China
Protesters in Peru, angry over the handling of a mercury spill, have blocked the road to one of Latin America's largest gold mines, Yanacocha, which is running low on crucial supplies, sector sources said on Wednesday. Residents near the mine, run by US-based Newmont Mining Corp and Peruvian precious metals …
All civil lawsuits arising from the 2007 collapse of the Crandall Canyon coal mine in eastern Utah, which left nine people dead and six seriously injured, were settled by an umbrella agreement that will require financial compensation but no admission of liability, lawyers said Tuesday. Terms of the payout, which …
NAGPUR: TWO workers were killed and one was injured when the slab of an underground coalmine of Western Coal-fields Limited (WCL) caved in near Chandrapur on Sunday. Raju Bhandari (46) and Bapurao Yenpalliwar (50) died and San-jay Upare (34) was injured when the mishap occurred at the Mana underground mine …
CISF personnel attack trade unionists CUDDALORE: A scuffle ensued between the trade unionists and the Central Industrial Security Forces personnel at Neyveli Lignite Corporation following an accident at Mine-I that claimed the life of an employee on Thursday. While Sakthivel (41), employed in the gravel yard of Mine-I, was returning …
At least 18 people were killed in a blast at a three-storey detonator and dynamite warehouse for a coal mine in southern China, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday. Police are searching for three shareholders of the mine in Hunan Province's Yongxing County in connection with Friday's explosion. …
At least 20 people were killed in northwest Tanzania when the walls of a small gold mine collapsed, burying workers inside, local media said Tuesday. Reports said the accident happened Sunday in Geita, Mwanza region, when the 100 meter (328 foot) deep pit they were working in was flooded by …
Alok Kumar Gupta Nearly half a million people living in and around the Jharia coalfield in Jharkhand have to be shifted to control underground fires. But the government has no sound strategy for their rehabilitation and the people have no trust in the government Kujama village in Jharkhand
TURA: Rescue teams in South Garo Hills are expecting to reach the trapped coal miners at Rongsa Awe by Tuesday even as they fear the worst for the men who have been underground for the last five days after their mine caved in. At least eight miners were killed after …
The 32nd meeting of the standing committee on safety in coal mines was held on 17th March, 2009 in New Delhi under the Chairmanship of Shri Santosh Bagrodia, Hon
SHILLONG: About eight miners are feared killed after being trapped inside a coal mine at Rangsawe, South Garo Hills on Friday last. The coal mine reportedly caved in when miners were at work. Rescue operations were on to rescue the miners. Unscientific mining might have caused the incident, police said …
Beijing: A coal mine blast in northern China killed 15 miners and three rescuers died in a cave-in Monday morning. China's coal mines are the world's deadliest. Coal is hugely important in China, feeding two-thirds of the economy's energy demand. Fifteen miners were confirmed dead after the gas explosion on …
