MES AYNAK, Afghanistan — The ancient Buddha statues sit in serene meditation in the caves carved into the russet cliffs of rural Afghanistan. TOP PRIORITY In 2008, the administration of Hamid Karzai signed a 30-year contract with a Chinese joint venture called MCC to extract high-grade copper from Mes Aynak. Mere months after the Taliban seized Kabul in August, consolidating …
Melanie Wood, from Perth, quit her office job to work at a gold mine A 'city girl' has revealed how she went from 'living paycheck to paycheck' to earning a six-figure salary after she quit the rat race to work at a gold mine. When she was offered a mining role at the Western Australian goldfields, a 10-hour drive from …
The National Disaster Response Force on Thursday joined the rescue efforts at the illegal coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district where five miners are trapped. The miners are trapped for the last four days inside the illegal coal mine that was flooded after a dynamite explosion. At least five miners have been identified by the district administration — …
In November 2020, the residents of Badi-Hoidad villages in Ghogha tehsil of Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, were greeted by a disorienting sight. Since November, the land has been rising by varying degrees all around GPCL’s lignite mining site. In a letter written to the relevant authorities on November 26 about the strong likelihood of “illegal and improper” mining, the PSS demanded …
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