The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration launched an app for use on iPhone and Android devices that will help get timely information directly to miners and members of the mining community. Read full article.
Read MoreNine miners have been rescued alive from a gold mine in the central Cundinamarca department of Colombia after a collapse on 17 August. According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the workers were located and brought to the surface the day after the incident at a pit in El Bosque. All are in good health and receiving medical care, the National Mining…
Read MorePumps are continuing feverishly to pull water from a flooded coal mine in the Sabinas municipality of Mexico’s Coahuila state as 10 miners remain trapped underground since a flooding event on August 3. Read more.
Read MoreOfficials from Agencia Nacional de Mineria (ANM), Colombia’s mining oversight group, confirmed that safety and rescue workers have completed the recovery of 15 miners fatally injured in a mine explosion at the La Chapa mine in the village of Hormezaque, Tasco, Boyaca on 26 February. ANM officials said the group of 60 mining rescuers, four engineers, and another 16 engineers…
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