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2020 Hpakant jade mine disaster. On 2 July 2020, a major landslide at the Wai Khar jade mining site in the Hpakant area of Kachin State, Myanmar, killed between 175 and 200 miners in the country's deadliest-ever mining incident. At 06:30 local time (MMT) heavy rains triggered the collapse of a heap of mining waste, which came tumbling down into ...
The 2023 Hpakant jade mine disaster occurred on August 13, 2023, when the Hpakant Jade Mines experienced the third documented landslide in the area. [1] Hpakant is located in Kachin, Myanmar. The landslide killed 32 people when tailings (mining waste) swept the miners into a nearby lake. [2] Myanmar is considered the sodium alumina silicate ...
Location. Hpakant, Kachin State, Myanmar. Deaths. 3–20. Non-fatal injuries. 25. Missing. 70–100. On December 22, 2021, a landslide at a jade mine in the Hpakant township in Kachin State, Myanmar, killed at least three people, and left between 70 and 100 missing.
The bodies of 33 people have been recovered from a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar and rescuers are searching for at least three people believed to be missing, a rescue official said ...
A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar left more than 30 people missing, and a search and rescue operation was underway on Monday, a rescue official said. The leader of a local rescue team ...
Following his previous work Jade Miners, which filmed the workers in the jade mines of Kachin State, Myanmar, the director turned his camera toward his brother, who served as a foreman at the Hpakant jade mine in Kachin State. The film took three years producing.
The Myanmar Fire Services Department said the disaster happened close to the Chinese border in Kachin state. Rescue workers had retrieved at least 113 bodies by noon with operations suspended due ...
Missing. 50+. On 22 April 2019, a landslide triggered the collapse of a jade mine near Maw Wun Kalay, Hpakant, Kachin State, Myanmar, trapping at least 54 miners. [1][2] The deaths of four miners were confirmed, along with the later deaths of two rescue workers. [3][4] The remaining miners were presumed to have died. [5]