The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration is making $10.5 million in grant funding available to help provide mine safety training for the nation’s miners. Full story.
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Stanmore to seal Mavis underground pit
Stanmore Resources had decided to start taking the necessary steps to cease operations at its Mavis underground coal project, part of the Millennium Complex, in Queensland’s Bowen Basin region. A strategic review by the miner determined that “the Mavis Underground project has proven to be uneconomic under current market conditions and coal prices, with comparatively higher costs driven among other…
Read MoreWest Virginia coal mine begins wind-down
The longtime underground coal operation formerly known as Blacksville 2 has begun its permanent shutdown in northern West Virginia. Read full article in North American Mining Magazine.
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