Currently, this mine-site technique is most accurate for samples collected in coal mines. NIOSH developed a video exposure monitoring method to identify sources of dust exposure for mobile miners. These miners have jobs that require them to move throughout the mining operation. In doing so, they can be exposed to multiple dust sources.
Get MoreWest ia's coal country gets more attention, but Wyoming produces more coal at this point. Gillette is the town that powers America -- at least it did for decades. But as the urgency of the ...
Get MoreThe push to abandon coal made selling the mines difficult. So companies chose to extend their life. Developing countries that invested in coal-powered electrical plants that have many years of useful life want reparations to develop new plants. New wind and solar plants are cheaper but unreliable. And they are not cheaper than plants already built.
Get MoreThe U.K. considers its 1st new coal mine in decades even as it calls to phase out coal A town in northern England wants to open a coking coal mine to create jobs. But while hosting the U.N ...
Get MoreIn the dusty coal town of Jharia in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, the ground has been on fire for more than 100 years. ... There is fear that unplanned closure would turn coal-dependent ...
Get MoreThe battle pits members of the Wayuu — the largest Indigenous group in Colombia — against the owners of the one of the largest coal mines in the world, and at over 270 square miles, the largest open-pit coal mine in all of Latin America.
Get MoreCoal mining at Thoresby Colliery, one of the last remaining underground coal mines in Britain, will cease on Friday and 360 employees will be made redundant, mine owner UK Coal said in a statement. Mining at UK Coal's Kellingley mine will also cease on or around December 15, the company said. Underground coal mining has become unprofitable in …
Get MoreIn a Fight Over a Colombian Coal Mine, Covid-19 Raises the Stakes. The Indigenous Wayuu people have long battled the Cerrejón coal mine. Amid Covid-19, they're now appealing to the U.N. Top: A woman stands during …
Get MoreIn a Fight Over a Colombian Coal Mine, Covid-19 Raises the Stakes. The Indigenous Wayuu people have long battled the Cerrejón coal mine. Amid Covid-19, they're now appealing to the U.N. Luz Ángela Uriana's voice trembled as she described the Covid-19 situation in her region. "We are really scared," she said in a phone call.
Get MoreFears Maltby could lose 'jewel' Published 8 October 2012. Coal mine at risk of closure. Published 25 September 2012. Firm issues profit warning. Published ... The families displaced despite ...
Get MoreMitchell said the recent closure of a coal-fired power plant in Sidney has brought into focus "the devastating reality of trickle-down economics," and that his measure could help local schools, parks and libraries keep their doors open by giving the PSC the ability to consider the broader economic impacts of changes to baseload power ...
Get MoreIf you would like to acquire digital copies of mine maps. To determine if property is undermined; Office Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement National Mine Map Repository 3 Parkway Center Pittsburgh, PA 15220 Fax: (412) 937-2888 Phone: (412) 937-2833 Email: [email protected]
Get MoreA town council has unanimously passed a motion calling for its pension fund to disinvest its holdings of almost £40m in fossil fuel firms.
Get MoreThe Chinese government has ordered the country's coal mines to "produce as much coal as possible" as it tries to increase production as winter approaches, and ease an ongoing energy crunch.
Get MoreIn a Fight Over a Colombian Coal Mine, Covid-19 Raises the Stakes. The Indigenous Wayuu people have long battled the Cerrejón coal mine. Amid Covid-19, they're now appealing to the U.N. Top: A woman stands during the funeral of a 2-year-old child who died from sudden fever, according to the people of the community.
Get MoreEuropean utility companies fail to disclose from which Colombian mines they buy their coal. The Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations revealed a "chronic and acute lack of transparency in the coal supply chain, effectively shielding coal-importing power companies from association with the adverse social and environmental ...
Get MoreThe carbon-intensive colliery, near the town of Seaham on the windswept northeast English coast, hauled coal from deep underground until its closure in 1991. Dawdon has long since flooded with water because part of the mine is below sea level, and is heated by geothermal energy.
Get MoreExploiting workers is always bad, but if a coal mine treats its workers well, it is nonetheless a danger to the ecosphere. What we need is not the establishment of good working conditions in that coal mine, it is to shut the mine and replace it with other employment with good conditions. 28 November 2021 (Thugs falsifying records)
Get MoreThe last months . The United Nations' Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, David Boyd, urged the Colombian government to order Prodeco, AngloGold Ashanti and BHP to suspend operations in the …
Get MoreIn a fight over a Colombian coal mine, COVID-19 raises the stakes The Indigenous Wayuu people have long battled the Cerrejón coal mine. Amid Covid-19, they're now appealing to the U.N.
Get MoreI just wrote a comment in reply to an earlier post by Felipe where I mentioned how the experiences of anxiety and fear that women as the wives and mothers of miners experienced helped explain (according to our interpretation) their acceptance of the closure of local coal mines, despite the negative economic impacts on the locality.
Get MoreA coalminer's application for a lease in the middle of the grape-growing region has galvanised local opposition Last modified on Sun 21 Nov 2021 15.29 EST The Broken Back Range has always loomed ...
Get MoreCoal production in Colombia slumped by 47.2% in September quarter, due to the ongoing lockdown in the country. The union strike at Cerrejon mine, the largest coal mine in the country, extending to its third month also affected production. Coal output in Q3 dropped to 11Mt from 20.8Mt in the same period in 2019.
Get MoreAuthorities in northern Italy on Friday ordered the closure of schools, bars and other public spaces in 10 towns following a flurry of new coronavirus cases. Five doctors and 10 other people tested positive for the virus in Lombardy, after apparently frequenting the …
Get MoreVisiting Columbia is like traveling back in time to the sights, smells, and sounds of a nineteenth century mining town—merchants dressed in 1850's attire, a whiff of coal smoke from the blacksmith shop, and the rumble of a stagecoach pulling into town! Spend the day enjoying fun activities for the whole family. Pan for gold, explore ...
Get MoreMary Fite, left, speaks out about Merrimack Station being in the same town as her family. With her, clockwise from top center, are infant …
Get MoreU.S.-bound migrants fill Colombia town as COVID-19 border closures lifted. A migrant and his daughter are seen next to a boat as they wait to cross into Panama to continue their journey toward the ...
Get MoreOn the road to the South Dakota town of Belle Fourche, a timber-frame coal tipple near the old Aladdin mine crumbles behind a barbed-wire fence, a …
Get MoreCoal was only recently overtaken by platinum group metals as the country's leading commodity by sales, but it remains the most significant component of the country's mining in terms of value added – accounting for 25%.1. "Strong international coal prices of around US$130/t have raised the attractiveness of exports, with most of South ...
Get More"The heat pump uses an electrical input," said Charlotte Adams, manager for mine energy at the UK Coal Authority industry body, which oversees old mines. "So it's not carbon-neutral, but it is ...
Get MoreThe company's Zibulo, Mafube and Khwezela mines have the potential for extension to add at least another decade of mining and perhaps much longer, producing more than 10 million tons of coal a year.
Get MoreHundreds of miners working at a deep coal pit in South Yorkshire have been given a 90-day notice of redundancy. About 540 staff at Maltby Colliery, near Rotherham, have been told of the decision ...
Get MoreVac truck excavation work near the town pavillion in Town of Pines, Indiana. Below are the 24 sites, known at this time, where coal ash ponds, landfills, and "fill" sites contaminated private drinking water wells. 1 The groundwater contaminants represent the constituents found in groundwater both onsite and offsite.
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