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Victoria Gold’s Eagle Gold Mine Achieves Significant Safety Milestone
August 10, 2020
Victoria Gold achieved a major safety accomplishment exceeding two years without a lost time incident (LTI) at the Eagle Gold Mine, Yukon. On July 23, 2020, the Eagle Gold Mine surpassed two years, representing 2,481,000 hours, without a LTI. This
Accident at Pretivm Resources’ Brucejack Mine Leaves One Worker Dead, B.C.
August 7, 2020
A worker has been killed during maintenance at a gold mine north of Stewart. Vancouver-based says the man, whose name hasn’t been released, was injured Friday while working at a support facility on the surface of the Brucejack Mine. The
Usibelli Coal Mine Receives NMA’s CORESafety® Certification
August 7, 2020
The National Mining Association (NMA) today recognized Usibelli Coal Mine (UCM) for its CORESafety® certification. CORESafety is the NMA initiative with the objective of zero fatalities and a 50 percent reduction in mining’s injury rate within five years. Usibelli joins
Global Standard on Waste Dams Released in Response to Multiple Mining Disasters
August 7, 2020
In response to multiple high-fatality mining sector accidents, a highly anticipated global standard on managing tailings was released Aug. 5 with the ambition of future dams causing “zero harm to people and the environment with zero tolerance for human fatality.”
Trump Says He’ll Listen to Both Sides on Pebble Mine Project, Alaska
August 7, 2020
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would “listen to both sides” after his eldest son and a campaign adviser urged him to intervene to block a proposed copper and gold mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region. Donald Trump Jr. on
EPA Settles With Utah Over 2015 Colorado Gold King Mine Spill
August 7, 2020
The U.S. government settled a lawsuit Wednesday brought by the state of Utah over a mine waste spill caused by federal workers that sent wastewater downstream to several states from the inactive Gold King Mine in southwestern Colorado five years
Peabody Energy Writes Down $1.42 Billion Value of North Antelope Rochelle Mine, Wyoming
August 7, 2020
Leading coal company Peabody Energy announced it will write down the value of the nation’s largest coal mine by $1.42 billion, as conditions for thermal coal production continue to weaken, according to a second quarter report published Wednesday morning. Plummeting
Planning Commission Votes Against Yellowstone’s Mine Proposal, Georgia
August 7, 2020
Members of the Bartow County Planning Commission voted unanimously Monday night to recommend denial of a request to rezone more than 400 acres in Adairsville for a possible mining operation. In addition to the rezoning request, applicant Yellowstone, LLC also
Aquila Resources Completes Positive PEA for Its Back Forty Project, Michigan
August 6, 2020
Aquila Resources has released a positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its wholly-owned Back Forty Project, located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA. The PEA builds on the company’s 2018 open pit feasibility study and includes the currently known
Cummins Receives Two Department of Energy Awards for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powertrains
August 6, 2020
Cummins has received two awards from the U.S. DOE’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) totaling nearly $7 million. The awards are for Cummins’ continued work on enhancing economic viability of fuel cell powertrain solutions for heavy-duty
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