News

  1. Home
  2. News
Plaxis 2D/3D Basic Course – Online Training begins on June 22, 2026
Register Today
Create a free account and view content that fits your specific interests in geotechnical engineering Learn More
Register

Mining News

Rockfall in South African gold mine: 4 workers dead

4 mineworkers were found dead after a rockfall occurred in a gold mine located in Orkney, South Africa. The incident occurred on Friday, December 6, 2019. A rockfall triggered by a minor earthquake i...

Read More

Mine explosion in China: 15 miners dead

15 miners were reported dead and 9 more were injured after a gas explosion in a Chinese coal mine. The blast occurred on Monday, November 18, 2019. The facility is located in Pingyao county, Shanxi p...

Read More

Dam collapse in Siberia results in 15 casualties

At least 15 workers died after a dam collapsed flooding a gold mine in Siberia, Russia. The gold mine is located in the Krasnoyarsk district of Russia, 160 kilometers south of Krasnoyarsk city,  The...

Read More

Landslide in Chad's gold mine: At least 30 people dead

At least 30 people died due to a landslide in an illegal gold mine in Chad. The landslide occurred on Tuesday, September 24, 2019. The illegal gold mine is located in Kouri Bougoudi, an area in north...

Read More

Eldorado receives permits for Greek gold mines exploitation

According to the Canadian Eldorado Gold Corp, the Greek government granted installation permits for both Skouries and Olympias gold mine projects on September 2, 2019. Skouries and Olympians mines ar...

Read More

Engineering new materials to replace diamonds for drilling

Diamond drilling was a break-through approach mostly used in mining industry to exploit deposits that would otherwise remain inaccessible. It also enabled the recovery of cores to examine the undergr...

Read More

Mine collapse in Congo: At least 43 fatalities

At least 43 miners were killed after a mine collapsed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The dramatic incident occurred on Thursday, July 27, 2019 in the Kolwezi region when 2 galleries inside the...

Read More

A landslide and a wall collapse struck the Indian state of Odisha in less than 2 days: At least 7 fatalities

At least 7 people have died and 8 more were injured after a landslide and a wall collapse occurred in Odisha's Keonjhar and Dhenkanal district in India, respectively. On Saturday, June 8, 2019, three...

Read More

Ancient Egyptian inscriptions found at Amethyst mines

Over 100 ancient inscriptions were found at an Amethyst mine in Wadi el-Hudi. According to archaeologists, the inscriptions were carved in the rock. The researchers also discovered 45 more wri...

Read More

Mining waste disposal: A challenging issue

The time for Mining industry to change its approach about waste disposal techniques has arrived. On January, 2019, an upstream dam collapsed in Brazil releasing a wave of red iron ore and contamina...

Read More