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DR Congo mine collapse kills at least 41
File: Kenny Katombe/Reuters
<p>At least 41 artisanal miners were killed when part of a copper and cobalt mine owned by Swiss-based mining giant Glencore collapsed in southern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the provincial governor has said.<br />The accident occurred on Thursday ...
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Open-pit gold mine close to production start
Northern Ontario Business   07 September 2017   Canada   Ontario  
New Gold's Rainy River open-pit mine, northwest of Fort Frances
<p>The start-up of New Gold&rsquo;s Rainy River gold mine in northwestern Ontario is only weeks away.</p> <p>The Toronto-based mid-tier miner is putting the finishing touches on the $515 million spent this year to carve out the open pit, dig the tailings area, ...
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Glencore reports seven dead in mining accident
Logo at the company’s headquarters in Baar, Switzerland. Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters
<p>Glencore&rsquo;s efforts to reduce fatalities among its staff have suffered a setback with the announcement that the death toll from an accident at a Congolese mine has risen to seven.<br />Rescuers have been searching for survivors for 10 days, after the ...
Southern Copper's $1.2bn Toquepala mine expansion OK’d
InfoMine   16 April 2015   Peru   Southern Tacna  
Toquepala is the world’s fifth biggest copper mine
<p>Peru has approved Southern Copper's (NYSE:SCCO) $1.2 billion expansion of its Toquepala open-pit mine in southern Tacna, which would allow the miner double the operation's concentrating capacity, El Economista (in Spanish) reports.</p>
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