Western firms reduce Eritrean miners to 'abject slavery', UK MPs say The Guardian Early day motion slams mining companies for using forced labour in collusion with repressive Eritrean government and adding to the country’s human exodus | Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn, the bill’s primary sponsor, says governments and mining companie...
Miners union warns PAC Hunter Valley needs MTW super pit Australian Broadcasting Corporation The mineworkers' union has told the Planning Assessment Commission the Hunter region cannot afford to lose the Mount Thorley-Warkworth coal mine. ...
Illegal Rohtas miners have a field day after SP withdraws forces The Times Of India Sasaram: All's not well in Rohtas, infamous for illegal stone quarrying. How else do you explain deployment of 60 armed policemen at the 'exit point' of illegal activities, and later withdrawal of the forces? | There's more. The forces remain withdra...
More Miners To Be Sacked Over “Dumsor” Peace FM Online The Ghana Mine Workers Union is lamenting that the worsening power crisis and ongoing load shedding exercise has contributed to the growing dismissal of miners across the country. | This comes after the Electricity Company of Ghana(ECG) announced a 2...
How to cut militias off from gold and mineral mines in Congo The Los Angeles Times Few parts of the world have been more ravaged by war and violence over the last two decades than the Democratic Republic of Congo. That's been made possible, in part, by the mines in the eastern part of the country that offer up tin, tungsten and tan...
Markets Live: Miners, banks sink ASX Canberra Times 11:45am: NBN Co chief executive Bill Morrow is confident that more Australians will have faster broadband sooner thanks to the new $11 billion deal signed with Telstra and Optus to acquire their cables used to deliver pay television. | The new ...
Markets Live: Miners, banks sink ASX Sydney Morning Herald 11:21am: In a major backflip, supermarket chain Coles has offered to refund certain payments to suppliers after admitting that it engaged in unconscionable conduct. | The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has confirmed that it was seekin...
Pastor says prayer helped miner injured in fire Lexington Herald-Leader PINEVILLE, Ky. — A Bell County miner injured when his bulldozer hit a gas line and erupted in fire is recovering. | Mark Elkins, a pastor, told WYMT-TV (http://bit.ly/1zj0PEY ) that Will Muncy thought he was going to die when the fire broke out...
Guinea Fights to Reduce Ebola Risks to Miners Voa News Carol Guensburg | Health teams working in Guinea are ramping up outreach efforts in the country’s mining regions, where a concentrated and mobile workforce provides a ripe environment for spreading the deadly Ebola virus, according to a UNICEF ...
Silva hungry for more goals Belfast Telegraph Manchester City playmaker David Silva is hungry for more goals after filling a void for the champions by striking twice against Crystal Palace. | The Spaniard helped City overcome the absence of any recognised strikers by setting up a comfortable 3-0 Barclays Premier League win at the Etihad Stadium with a second-half double. | Yaya Toure completed...
N Korea offers assistance to US into Sony cyber attack Mail Guardian South Africa North Korea on Saturday called for a joint investigation with the United States into a crippling cyber attack on Sony Pictures, claiming it had means to prove Pyongyang had nothing to do with it. | The proposal comes after US President Barack Obama warned North Korea Friday that it would face retaliation for the cyber attack over an irreverent film...
