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The current state of health and safety in South Africa’s mining industry 1 International Safety & Health 

The current state of health and safety in South Africa’s mining industry

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The Minerals Council Facts & Figures 2022 pocketbook states there has been dramatic improvement in health and safety performance recorded during 2022 for the first time in its history, the South African mining industry has recorded less than 50 lives lost in a calendar year. The mining industry’s health and safety performance in 2022 showed a marked reduction to below 2019’s 51 lost lives, which was the lowest on record. Provisional statistics indicate that 49 employees lost their lives in 2022, compared to 74 in 2021. The 2022 safety performance… Read More Here
Fourteen miners dead in Sudan, dozens injured in mine collapse - official 2 International Mine Safety Safety & Health 

Fourteen miners dead in Sudan, dozens injured in mine collapse – official

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Fourteen miners have died and more than 20 have been injured in a mine collapse in Sudan’s Northern state, a senior official in state-owned Sudanese Mineral Resources Company told Reuters on Friday. Part of a mountainside collapsed near al Jabal al Ahmar mine, located 70kms away from Wadi Halfa city, causing the deadly accident on Thursday, Moataz Hajj Nour told Reuters. Witnesses said miners were digging for gold using heavy machinery which had caused the collapse, according to Sudan News Agency (SUNA) on Thursday. Source: reuters.com Read More Here
More bodies found in China Mine collapse, More Personnel Remain missing  3 International Mine Safety Safety & Health 

More bodies found in China Mine collapse, More Personnel Remain missing 

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Rescuers with backhoes and bulldozers are digging through tons of earth and rubble to search for the missing mine workers after a coal mine collapsed in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The death toll has risen to six, and 47 people remain missing nearly two days after the incident occurred. As of 10:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 23rd, six people have been successfully rescued. Conditions in the area remain dangerous, and the search had to be suspended for several hours after a second landslide at the gigantic facility in… Read More Here
FQM Trident scoops the Emergency Response Competition 4 Mining in Zambia Environment Social Governance (ESG) Mine Safety Safety & Health 

FQM Trident scoops the Emergency Response Competition

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FQM Trident Scoops the 6th Inter-mine Emergency Response Competition held at Lubambe Copper Mine on the 14th of November, 2022 The best of the best in the Mining Companies’ emergency response rescue teams put their skills to the test to demonstrate that the Mining sector is in safe hands. The Six-member team earned the overall title by winning two of the three surface events, which included High Angle Ropes manoeuvres, Vetter Bags Rescue, and Team Relay by scoring 240 points, followed by Lubambe Copper Mine who came with 212 points,… Read More Here
Kansanshi Mining Plc Hosts Eight mining companies for a Mine Rescue Training 5 Mining in Zambia Mine Safety Safety & Health 

Kansanshi Mining Plc Hosts Eight mining companies for a Mine Rescue Training

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Kansanshi Mining Plc on Friday 11th November 2022 hosted eight mining companies namely Konkola Copper Mines, Mopani, NFCA, Lubambe Copper Mines, Nkana, Mabiza, Mufulira, and Luanshya to a mine rescue training which aimed at improving mine rescue response at the mine pit has Kansanshi is in the process of putting up a team together for the underground decline project.All Mines Rescue Teams in Zambia are trained through the Zambian Chamber of Mines, and Training is conducted on a quarterly basis throughout the year (4 x per year). Training is conducted… Read More Here
Safety Officer Careers Mine Safety Mining in Zambia Safety & Health 

ZAMBIAN MINES CHALLENGED ON SAFETY

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Zambia’s Mines and Minerals Development Minister PAUL KABUSWE has challenged mining companies to improve their Occupational Safety and Health systems. Mr. KABUSWE says the desire of government is to see zero fatalities and growth in the mining industry to meet production targets of 3 million tons of Copper in a decade. In a speech read on his behalf by Acting Director Mines Safety Department MALFRED MOOLELA at the 6th National Conference on Occupational Health, Safety and Environment in Ndola Mr. KABUSWE said his Ministry is aware that several mining companies… Read More Here
Ivanhoe Mines Reports Fatality at the Kamoa-Kakula Mining Complex 6 Safety & Health Mining in DRC 

Ivanhoe Mines Reports Fatality at the Kamoa-Kakula Mining Complex

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Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo–(September 9, 2022) – Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN) (OTCQX: IVPAF) regrets to report that a fatal accident has occurred at the Kamoa-Kakula Mining Complex in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The fatal accident occurred at the underground Kansoko Mine in a development area when a fall of ground struck a Kamoa Copper employee. On behalf of the Kamoa Copper Joint Venture, Ivanhoe Mines extends its deepest condolences to the grieving family and friends of the deceased. Kamoa Copper is undertaking a comprehensive internal investigation into… Read More Here
Accidents in artisanal mines, SAEMAPE challenges operators on compliance with safety measures 7 Mining in DRC Artisanal mining Safety & Health 

Accidents in artisanal mines, SAEMAPE challenges operators on compliance with safety measures

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The Assistance and Supervision Service for Artisanal Mining and Small-scale Mining (SAEMAPE), in the province of Maniema, calls on artisanal miners to comply with the instructions issued, in order to operate safely in the mining sites. In an interview granted Friday, February 11 to Radio Okapi, the provincial director of SAEMAPE, Patrick Kitembo reveals that he has been observing for several months, cases of accidents involving artisanal miners on mining sites causing deaths or serious injuries. . For him, this situation is the result of non-compliance with the instructions given. “We… Read More Here
First Quantum sets out vaccination policy for Zambia mines 8 Mining in Zambia Safety & Health 

First Quantum sets out vaccination policy for Zambia mines

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First Quantum Minerals has clarified Covid-19 vaccination protocols at its Kansanshi mine, in Solwezi, and its Sentinel mine, in Kalumbila, both in Zambia. It is also calling on all citizens to be vaccinated, in support of the Zambian government’s efforts to drive vaccination rates in the country. The protocols are aimed at encouraging all employees and contractors to be vaccinated, while also respecting everyone’s right to decide whether they get vaccinated. The company will require those working in close proximity to others to be vaccinated. Only those who are vaccinated will be… Read More Here
Ivanhoe mines reports no impact from the omicron variant on any of its operations 9 Mining in DRC Safety & Health 

Ivanhoe mines reports no impact from the omicron variant on any of its operations

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Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; OTCQX: IVPAF) reports that the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron, has had no impact on any of its mining or mine development operations in South Africa or the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). No cases of the new variant have been detected at the company’s Kamoa-Kakula and Kipushi projects in the DRC and, while there have been some recent infections among employees and contractors working at the company’s Platreef Project in South Africa, all people infected to date have either been asymptomatic or experienced very mild symptoms.… Read More Here

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