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South African miners in final talks
Zuma Bigger.jpg South African unions representing gold miners met ... the negotiations. A gold miners' strike, adding to a wave of industrial action in Africa's biggest economy ...
China mine blast kills dozens
killed at least 42 people. Around 66 miners remain trapped underground. Over 400 others who were ... miners. Lax safety standards make China's mines the deadliest in the world, with thousands of miners ...
19 die in Turkish mine explosion
-west Turkey has claimed the lives of 19 miners. Six miners were initially reported dead but 13 men reported ...
Mineworkers killed in Indonesia
indo map.jpg Nine miners were killed in Indonesia when an explosion ... , and is owned by local people. Indonesia is a mineral-rich country with an extensive mining industry ...
Mine blast in Poland kills 12
killed at least 12 workers. Thirty miners were injured, 15 of them seriously. Twenty-nine others ... . It is Poland's worst mining accident since November 2006, when an explosion left 23 miners dead. (Photo ...
18 killed in Ghana goldmine disaster
nation, police said on Thursday. Thirty miners were believed to be inside the mine in Dompoase ... producer in Africa. Revenues from gold, which accounts for more than 90 percent of the country's mineral ... ;quot;Galamsey" - farmers evicted to make way for large-scale mining operations, or former miners who lost their jobs ...
92 die in Chinese mine disaster
photo of chinese miners contemporart 13 xiaming.jpg The death toll from ... , was caused by a build up of methane gas. The miners were preparing to evacuate when the explosion occurred. Most of the 528 miners working at the time of the accident managed to escape. China's coal mines ...
Avatar breaks box office records
a precious mineral on the planet. In the Netherlands, a million people have seen the film. Photo ...
IMF: Progress seen in China-DRC deal
cited signs of progress in talks to adjust a $9 billion infrastructure-for-minerals deal between China ... the contract, which uses Congo's mineral reserves as a guarantee for infrastructure projects, could plunge ... ." Source: Reuters (mineral reserves, mining, Robert Zoellick, World Bank) ...
Clinton to push Congo over rape
and girls as "weapons of war". She stressed the need to tackle the trade in minerals ... of the violent North Kivu province. (civil war, Congo, DRC, Goma, Hillary Clinton, minerals, rape ...
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