Not so long ago, many mining operations in Greater Sudbury didn’t go a week without having an employee suffer some form of serious injury.
Going a full year - and more - without a single reportable disabling injury is not only something to be proud of, but worthy of national attention.
That’s why there were so many [...]

Violent thunderstorms dampened the spirits of many Bulgarians hoping to greet the first sunrays in the tradition of July Morning.
Throughout the night many other Bulgarian towns were submerged and eighteen men were blocked underground in a mine in Vidin at the Danube.
At some places large hails accompanied the storm and areas in the capital awoke [...]

The area around an abandoned mine in Silverado Canyon will be shut down to clear the section of hazardous metals, officials with the Cleveland National Forest announced Friday.
Biologists and engineers with the Trabuco Ranger District will remove soils containing hazardous metals and will gate tunnels inside the Blue Light Mine Complex.
Since the area is popular [...]

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection says someone broke the shaft’s concrete cap.
That opening is near several homes in Milam. It’s also near a popular gathering spot for teens.
DEP officials say falling into the shaft would be deadly, it’s 190 foot drop and it’s filled with water.

ANOTHER day, another astounding twist in the gripping M&A pot-boiler that is Canadian miner Inco’s attempted marriage to its local rival Falconbridge. This time the romance may lead to the birth of a new mining giant.
Weeks before Swiss miner Xstrata’s all-cash bid for Falconbridge was set to go before shareholders, Inco, Falconbridge and Arizona-based copper [...]

There has been a U-turn in terms of coal availability for the power sector this year with Coal India Ltd (CIL) facing a problem of plenty. Stocks have piled up at the pit-heads as the thermal power plants are not lifting the coal earmarked for them.
Currently CIL’s pit-head stocks have touched a whopping 31 [...]

Frustrating Wyoming energy officials, Basin Electric Power Cooperative announced Friday it will team up with GE Energy and Bechtel Power to consider developing a coal gasification power plant in South Dakota.
North Dakota-based Basin Electric is in the permitting process for its 385-megawatt Dry Fork Station — a traditional pulverized coal power plant to be located [...]

Public comment is now closed on Moose Lake Aggregate’s quest to expand its mining operation in Howard Township.
Most of the final two hours of opposition comments heard by the township’s planning commission this past week came from four long-time gravel pit foes, Larry and Lucyle Eckler, who own a neighboring specialty crop farm and are [...]

Coal properties owner and manager Natural Resource Partners LP has closed two acquisitions of coal reserves in Indiana and Maryland totaling $16.35 million.
The first acquisition for $10.85 million comprises coal reserves in Indiana. The acquisition consists of 16.3 million tons of coal reserves and an overriding royalty interest on an additional 2.4 million tons. These [...]

Commercial vessels began using a southwestern Louisiana shipping channel on Friday for the first time since a spill of 47,000 barrels of oil forced its closure last week and tapped the nation’s oil reserve.
The U.S. Coast Guard allowed a limited number of ships to use the Calcasieu Ship Channel after the wake from a barge [...]