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Anti-disturbance device. A device which initiates an explosion when a protected mine is lifted, tilted or disturbed in any way e.g. a notable variant of the VS-50 mine featuring an integral mercury switch. Anti-defuzing device. A device which initiates an explosion when an attempt is made to remove a fuze from a protected mine. Anti-disarming ...
Millerite- Arsenian Pyrite specimen from the underground Meikle mine, Goldstrike complex. Goldstrike is a gold mine in Eureka County in north-eastern Nevada. It is located on the Carlin Trend, a prolific gold mining district. It is owned and operated by Barrick Gold. Since Barrick acquired Goldstrike in 1986, until 2018 it produced 44.4 million ...
Broken Hill miners' strike of 1892: Australia New South Wales: 1892 Cananea strike: Mexico Sonora: 1906 Cape Breton coal strike of 1981: Canada Nova Scotia: 1981 United Mine Workers of America Coal Creek miners' strike of 1891–1892: United States Tennessee: 1891–1892 Columbine Mine strike: United States Colorado: 1927 Coal Wars: Copper ...
Many are due to attacks carried out by a single animal, but bovines have been known to organize and strike in groups. Number 4.Gamma Ray Bursts. The powerful forces can be released by any number ...
In November 2003, anti-poverty NGO Oxfam conducted an investigation into the strike, at the request of the union. In its report, released in 2004, Oxfam wrote that "over 300 people still periodically sit on a picket line outside the mine and complain of hardships endured by their families because they refuse to return to work until their grievances are addressed."
At the time of the strike 66% of the shares of the Lena Gold Mining Partnership (Lenzoloto) [1] were owned by Lena Goldfields, a company registered in London and traded in London, Paris and St. Petersburg. 70% of Lena Goldfields, or about 46% of Lenzoloto, was in the hands of Russian businessmen and managed by a committee of the Russian investors of the company. 30% of Lena Goldfields, or ...
The Homestake Mine was a deep underground gold mine (8,000 feet or 2,438 m) located in Lead, South Dakota. Until it closed in 2002 it was the largest and deepest gold mine in the Western Hemisphere . The mine produced more than forty million troy ounces (43,900,000 oz; 1,240,000 kg) of gold during its lifetime. [1] This is about 2,500 cubic ...
Chilean state-owned mining company Codelco said that a worker died in an accident on Friday afternoon at Radomiro Tomic copper mine in the country's north. The worker, a 30-year-old woman, was ...