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The Monongah Mining Disaster was the worst mining accident of American history; 362 workers were killed in an underground explosion on December 6, 1907, in Monongah, West Virginia. The U.S. Bureau of Mines was created in 1910 to investigate accidents, advise industry, conduct production and safety research, and teach courses in accident ...
Commercial mining ventures failed, only diamond mine accessible to the general public. World's only perfect diamond found here. [citation needed] Kelsey Lake Diamond Mine: Colorado: State Line Kimberlite District McKenzie Bay: 1976–2001
Hecla Mining's Greens Creek mine located 17 mi (27 km) south-southwest of Juneau, Alaska, on Admiralty Island, opened in August 1989. The mine produces silver, gold, zinc and lead from a structurally and mineralogically complex VMS deposit. In 2019 it produced 56,805 tonnes of zinc in concentrate as a byproduct of silver-gold mining. [6]
Countries in North America are sorted by nominal GDP estimates based on 2023 data from the World Economic Outlook by the International Monetary Fund. [ 1 ] The figures presented here do not take into account differences in the cost of living in different countries, and the results can vary greatly from one year to another based on fluctuations ...
Another project in the Detour Lake area of Ontario ranks 4th among North America's deposits (up from six in July 2010). [ 60 ] [ 61 ] [ 62 ] Among the largest gold containing properties controlled by Canadian companies is Goldcorp's wholly owned billion ounce silver, 18 million ounce gold Penasquito mine in Mexico and Ivanhoe Mines ' 81.3 ...
2023 bauxite production and reserves (thousands of tons) [1]; Country Production Reserves World: 400,000: 30,000,000 Australia 98,000: 3,500,000 Guinea 97,000: ...
Iron mining in the United States produced 48 million metric tons of iron ore in 2019. [1] Iron ore was the third-highest-value metal mined in the United States, after gold and copper. [ 2 ] Iron ore was mined from nine active mines and three reclamation operations in Michigan , Minnesota , and Utah .