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Employees at the National Coal Mining Museum charity, located in Wakefield, England, will go on strike for a month after failing to agree on a pay increase with the charity's management. The dispute centers around a proposed 5% pay rise, which the union claimed was agreed upon in
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Coal industry lawyers and the Trump Administration's Mine Safety and Health Administration are indefinitely delaying measures to prevent deadly silica dust exposure among coal miners, despite years of advocacy from miners and their allies. The Silica Dust Standard, issued in April 2024, was intended to limit miners'
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Advocates for people with black lung have been fighting for years to implement a federal rule to lower coal miners' exposure to dangerous silica dust. However, a federal court's decision to delay the rule's implementation has left many concerned that the pushback is "bureaucratic
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MC Mining Limited has successfully commenced open pit mining at its flagship Makhado steelmaking hard coking coal project in Limpopo Province, South Africa. The project is progressing rapidly, with a Coal Handling and Preparation Plant under construction, scheduled for completion by the end of 2025. The Makhado Project is set
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The UNISON union has confirmed that staff at the National Coal Mining Museum in Yorkshire will go ahead with a four-week strike, starting on Wednesday, August 20, and ending on Sunday, September 14. The strike will affect all underground tours at the museum. The union's rejection of the
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A new research study on environment and sustainability research has presented fresh data on the benefits of solid waste backfill disposal in mining areas. According to the study, the process of coal mining causes ecological damage such as surface subsidence, soil and water pollution, and land occupation. However, the use
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A recent study has shed light on the effects of coal mining on vegetation cover in low hilly areas. Researchers from Henan Polytechnic University in China used Sentinel-2A remote sensing data to assess the cover of non-photosynthetic vegetation (NPV) and photosynthetic vegetation (PV) in a coal mine area. The study
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Youth from Shangla, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, organized a rally to protest the alarming rate of coal mine accidents and alleged bogus development projects in their region. The protesters, led by the Shangla youth president Muhammad Idrees Khan, chairman Syed Inam, and general secretary Gul Nabi, blocked the
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The Indigenous Dayak community in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, is still seeking justice and accountability for the murder of elder Rusel, whose throat was cut while guarding a road checkpoint in Muara Kate. Although police have questioned staff from coal miner PT Mantimin Coal Mining and interviewed 36 witnesses, no suspect
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Research conducted at Shanxi Medical University in Taiyuan, People's Republic of China, has revealed that potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in soil near coal mines pose a significant threat to soil biota, ecosystem stability, and human health. Soil nematodes, which quickly respond to environmental changes, are reliable biological indicators
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The ongoing conflict in Donetsk region has led to further disruptions in critical infrastructure, as Russian invaders shelled a mine in the city of Dobropillia, causing a power outage and subsequent flooding. According to Mykhailo Volynets, head of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine and vice president of
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Montana's Governor Greg Gianforte praised President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum for their decision to approve the mining plan modification for the Rosebud Mine in Montana. This move extends the mine's operation through 2039 and secures approximately 300 high-paying jobs. The
