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Sibanye-Stillwater to probe waste rock conveyor collapse as labour wants answers

adminApril 18, 2023

by adminApril 18, 20230363

Labour wants answers after Sibanye-Stillwater informed markets on Friday that four mineworkers had died at its Balfour plant after a rock conveyor collapsed. Sibanye’s share...

Adventists join call for ban on small scale mining

adminOctober 25, 2022

by adminOctober 25, 20220626

The Seventh-day Adventist Church has designated the fourth Saturday in October as Creation Sabbath. Saturday, October 22, 2022 was marked as the Creation Sabbath, a special...

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Toilet caves in due to in-house mining and woman dies

adminOctober 25, 2022

by adminOctober 25, 20220322

The Konongo-Odumase Township was thrown into mourning in the early hours of Sunday when a toilet caved in, swallowing a 24-year-old woman who was attending...

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Chinese companies slated for mercury pollution in Cameroon

adminSeptember 6, 2022

by adminSeptember 6, 20220644

Civil society groups have raised the alarm over pollution of rivers in eastern and northern Cameroon by gold mining companies. The Centre for Environment and...

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Sierra Leone: Environment – Impacts of Illegal Mining Activities: Threat to Water Security, Human Health, and Potential National Public Health Emergency

adminAugust 11, 2022

by adminAugust 11, 202208364

The availability of abundant natural resources in a country is considered to be a blessing by many because of the potential to change the destiny...

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South Africa: Abandoned Coal Mines Pose Deadly Risk

adminJuly 20, 2022August 3, 2022

by adminJuly 20, 2022August 3, 20220822

Hundreds of South Africa’s abandoned coal mines pose a deadly risk to local communities and threaten to pollute the water of millions of South Africans...

Health and Safety Mining

Momentum behind collision prevention on mines

adminJuly 20, 2022

by adminJuly 20, 20220866

While Proximity Detection Systems (PDSs) have been around for little more than 15 years, the offerings on the market today are streets ahead of what...

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Sudan’s gold rush wreaks havoc on health

adminJuly 20, 2022

by adminJuly 20, 20220535

Sudanese mother Awadya Ahmed has long wondered why her youngest child Talab was born blind and unable to walk; now she suspects the piles of...

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Gov’t determined to stop pollution of water bodies – Mireku Duker

adminJuly 5, 2022

by adminJuly 5, 20220660

The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has reiterated the Government’s commitment to stop the pollution of water bodies by activities of illegal miners in...

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Man dies during stone mining in Karachuonyo, Homa Bay

adminMay 23, 2022

by adminMay 23, 20220773

A 35-year-old miner was killed in a quarry at Siburi village in the Karachuonyo constituency, Homa Bay county. Joseph Otieno died on Friday evening when...

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Sibanye-Stillwater to probe waste rock conveyor collapse as labour wants answers

Adventists join call for ban on small scale mining

Toilet caves in due to in-house mining and woman dies

Chinese companies slated for mercury pollution in Cameroon

Sierra Leone: Environment – Impacts of Illegal Mining Activities: Threat to Water Security, Human Health, and Potential National Public Health Emergency

South Africa: Abandoned Coal Mines Pose Deadly Risk

Momentum behind collision prevention on mines

Sudan’s gold rush wreaks havoc on health

Gov’t determined to stop pollution of water bodies – Mireku Duker

Man dies during stone mining in Karachuonyo, Homa Bay

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