Posts Tagged ‘the-mine’

Union spokesman Virgo Solossa said Friday the miners will stop returning to the mine on Saturday if they are not paid salaries owed to them during a recent three-month strike. Full story

TIMIKA (INDONESIA) A STRIKE at Freeport McMoRan’s huge gold and copper mine in eastern Indonesia has slashed production by 230,000 tonnes a day, the energy and minerals ministry said on Friday. The production cut at the mine in eastern Indonesia’s Full story

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A worker at the Kensington Gold Mine in Alaska was killed in an accident on the job on Monday morning, the mine's owner said. A spokesman for the mine's parent company, Idaho-based Coeur d'Alene Mines Corp., said the miner Full story

At least five people died in Colombia on Tuesday when a gold mine collapsed in the southern province of Cauca, local authorities said. The accident happened due to a landslide inside the mine, located in the Lopez de Micay district of Cauca, said Angel Full story

OceanaGold on Wednesday said it has overcome obstacles to mining in the Philippines and will start producing copper in concentrate from its long-delayed Didipio mine project in 2013 at an annual rate of 18,000 tonnes. Full story

June 9 (Reuters) - Gold Ore Resources Ltd: * Announces increased gold production in second quarter * Says during the second quarter the mine produced 11,131 ounces of gold * Says projects 2011 gold production at 44,000 to 46,000 ounces. Full story

According to the copper and gold giant, unidentified gunmen shot and killed two workers at the mine Full story

TORONTO (miningweekly.com) TSX-listed Romarco Minerals aims to start work at its flagship Haile gold project in South Carolina before the end of 2011, and is already looking at the potential for expansions at the mine, CEO Diane Garrett said on Thursday. Full story

The South African miner said a worker died due to falling rocks at the mine early on Thursday morning Full story

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said about 6000 workers would strike, but Gold Fields said that only two-thirds of its 3000 full-time staff at the mine were NUM members. The other 3000 workers were contractors and would not be affected by the Full story