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The Mining Industry’s Waste Problem Will Only Get Worse

Bloomberg Opinion 19 February 2019 World

Trouble ahead. Photographer: Victor Moriyama/Bloomberg

It’s taken two tragedies in just over three years, but the mining industry is finally starting to clean up its act. Brazil’s government Monday announced plans to ban upstream tailings dams, a low-cost method of storing mining waste implicated ...

Filed under: Mining News

UK Professors Receive $2.1 Million Award to Advance Autonomous Underground Mining Systems

uky.edu 23 November 2017 USA Kentucky

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 21, 2017) — Underground coal mines are tight spaces characterized by limited mobility and visibility. These are factors that cause difficulty for equipment operators and introduce serious risks for workers around haulage vehicles, ...

Filed under: Advanced Knowledge

Calls for urgent intervention to prevent closure of key NSW coal mine and power station

abc.net.au 20 September 2017 Australia Lithgow / New South Wales

There is an urgent call from the mining town of Lithgow, west of Sydney, to secure the future of a mine that is the only coal supplier for a key New South Wales power station.The future of Springvale Mine in the state's central-west has been in doubt ...

Filed under: Mining News