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Mining in Pakistan is a dangerous job, especially coal mining, as safety procedures are often neglected and accidents are quite common. There is air pollution with no modern safety equipment such as breathing equipment or ventilation. Nearly all miners have lung problems and many suffer from carbon monoxide poisoning. But the main causes of ...
Kastan (Persian: كاستان, also Romanized as Kāstān) [1] is a village in Ghazi Rural District, Samalqan District, Maneh and Samalqan County, North Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 790, in 205 families.
The Canatuan mine was a gold/silver, copper/zinc open-pit mine located in the province of Zamboanga del Norte on the southern island of Mindanao, Philippines.The mine was operated from 2004 to January 2014 by TVI Resource Development (Phils) Inc., a former subsidiary of Canadian-based TVI Pacific Inc.
In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...
The Kuznetsk Basin (Russian: Кузнецкий угольный бассейн, Кузбасс; often abbreviated as Kuzbass or Kuzbas) in southwestern Siberia, Russia, is one of the largest coal mining areas in Russia, covering an area of around 10,000 square miles (26,000 km 2). [1]
The Benjamin William Mkapa Special Economic Zone (BWM- SEZ) is a Special Economic Zone at Mabibo in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.. It is the Government's initiative of enabling the country to attain semi-industrialization status.
Katanga Mining Ltd was a mining company operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with its headquarters in Canada. Katanga Mining operated a major mine complex in the Congo's Katanga Province, producing refined copper and cobalt. It claimed to have the "potential of becoming Africa's largest copper producer and the world's largest ...
The Indonesian government approved the feasibility study in 1997, allowing construction to commence in the same year. Additional drilling programs continued to define the deposit from 1996 to 1998. Total capital costs for the initial Batu Hijau Project were $1.8 billion. The Batu Hijau mine was the largest "green-fields" mining project ever built.