Australian miner South32 said it will halt some of its operations at the Appin coal mine in New South Wales during a week-long strike by underground mining supervisors, reported ABC News. Full story.
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EACON Mining Technology held a launch ceremony on 18 July for the deployment of 100 hybrid autonomous mining trucks to the South pit of TBEA – China’s highest-capacity coal mine. The deployment marks the largest fleet of autonomous mining trucks within a single mine worldwide. Full Story.
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Thiess is the first mining services provider to autonomously drill more than one million multi-pass lineal metres, hitting the significant milestone with its fleet of Epiroc drills at Jellinbah’s Lake Vermont coal mine in Queensland. Full story.
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Thiess Rehabilitation has been selected for a two-year deal to perform rehabilitation services for Idemitsu Australia’s Muswellbrook Coal (MCC) at the Muswellbrook coal mine in the upper Hunter region, New South Wales. Full story.
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A total of six workers were hospitalized for non-life-threatening injuries and asset damage is still being assessed at America’s largest producing coal mine, the North Antelope Rochelle (NARM) complex in Wyoming, after a tornado struck the property on June 23. Full story.
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Montem Resources, who had plans to restart production at the previously abandoned Tent Mountain open-pit coal mine in Canada, has reportedly withdrawn plans and is walking away. Full story.
Read MoreNo fatalities were reported but more than 220 miners were evacuated from a coal mine in southern Russia after a smoke incident. The event occurred 2 April, underground at the Obukhovskaya operation near Zverevo in the Rostov region. Workers were at a depth of about 200 meters (650 feet). While the operator has not commented on the incident in the…
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Just days before Christmas, Teck Resources reportedly inked a deal with Conuma Resources to sell its closed Quintette coal mine in northeastern British Columbia, Canada for C$120 million. Full article.
Read MoreOfficials are reporting the deaths of 10 workers and the rescue of four others after an explosion at a coal mine in the West Sumatra province. Read full article.
Read MoreCrews at an unidentified coal mine in northwestern Pakistan recovered nine bodies and four injured individuals after a methane gas explosion on 30 November, according to reports citing government officials. An Associated Press report said the blast occurred at an operation in the Orakzai district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province which is near Afghanistan. Deputy commissioner Adnan Khan told regional outlet MEHR…
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