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The Tampakan gold and copper deposit is situated in the mountains surrounding the town Tampakan in the South Cotabato province in the Philippines. [5] The deposit was discovered in November 1990 by the Australian company Western Mining Corporation (WMC), who acquired mining rights in Tampakan through a Financial and Technical Assistance Agreement (FTAA) with the Philippine government. [6]
13 May 2014 The Soma coal mine disaster was an explosion at a coal mine in Turkey that killed ~301 and trapped a further 600 underground. [58] 31 July 2014 The 2014 Kaohsiung gas explosions occurring in a Kaohsiung City city street in Taiwan, it killed 30 and injured 309 while destroying 1.5 km of road and damaging 1,500 business stores.
A tailings reservoir breached and collapsed into the copper mine below it, killing 89 night-shift workers. [27] Aberfan disaster: 21 October 1966 Wales: 144 The collapse and landslide of a spoil tip accumulated above the mining town on geologically unstable ground killed 28 adults and 116 children (not an engineered structure) Hpakant jade mine ...
1970: Hurricane Creek mine disaster kills 38 in Eastern Kentucky. An explosion at Finley Mine on Hurricane Creek, near Hyden in Leslie County, killed 38 miners when the blast occurred Dec. 30, 1970.
Jul. 6—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Approximately 120 years ago, 112 miners walked into the Rolling Mill Mine portal on the morning of July 10, 1902, but none returned home that day. An explosion, caused ...
Jul. 7—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Approximately 120 years ago, 112 miners walked into the Rolling Mill Mine portal on the hillside above Johnstown, but none returned home. An explosion caused by an open ...
Pages in category "Mining disasters in the United States" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... Pabst Mine disaster; S.
SOMA, Turkey (AP) - Turkey's prime minister says the death toll in the coal mine explosion and fire has increased to 232. Recep Tayyip Erdogan made the announcement Wednesday during a visit to the ...