# mining - Friday 12 January, 2018
# Crypto
# Crypto
Turns out the President was up to speed on cryptocurrency.
# mining - Tuesday 19 July, 2016
# Made In Taiwan
# Made In Taiwan
The Resource Prospector project aims to be the first mining expedition on another world.
# mining - Monday 28 December, 2015
# Ireland's Past
# Ireland's Past
Explore the latest work of photographer Donal Moloney.
# mining - Friday 19 September, 2014
# Gold Rush
# Gold Rush
Ireland’s first commercial gold mine being planned along 50km “gold trend” from Cavan to Armagh.
# mining - Thursday 18 September, 2014
# Data
# Data
Tim Cook said in a letter on privacy that Apple doesn’t let government services access the company’s information.
# mining - Friday 22 August, 2014
# Drilling Down
# Drilling Down
There’s zinc in them there hills.
# mining - Sunday 18 May, 2014
# Turkey
# Turkey
The detained include mining executives, and the action comes after 301 miners died in the incident.
# mining - Thursday 15 May, 2014
# Mine Collapse
# Mine Collapse
Yusuf Yerkel, advisor to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, sparked outrage when he kicked a protester who was being held by police.
# mining - Wednesday 14 May, 2014
# Turkey Mine Disaster
# Turkey Mine Disaster
Thousands of protesters clashed with police in Ankara and Istanbul.
# mining - Monday 31 March, 2014
# Irish Abroad
# Irish Abroad
ABC News reports that it is believed that 27-year-old Kevin Browne slipped and fell from rigging at the Hard Times mine in Queensland.
# mining - Monday 17 February, 2014
# Holey Moley
# Holey Moley
The hole appeared near a disused mine over the weekend.
# mining - Thursday 21 November, 2013
# New Lease
# New Lease
The Navan zinc and lead mine, which is the largest Zinc mine in Europe, has been in operation since 1977.
# mining - Monday 9 September, 2013
# Sponsored By
# Sponsored By
Could you be sitting on top of your own personal goldmine?
# mining - Monday 12 August, 2013
# South Africa
# South Africa
The death comes just days before the anniversary of last year’s violence at the mine, in which 34 strikers were shot dead by police.
# mining - Saturday 11 May, 2013
# China
# China
108 miners were underground when the explosion hit the Taozigou mine in the Sichuan province.
# mining - Saturday 6 April, 2013
# Tragedy
# Tragedy
The body of Mario Francis is trapped under a rockfall.
# mining - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
# Coal Miners
# Coal Miners
In 2016, when mandatory retirement kicks in, they will be the last of their kind.
# mining - Saturday 1 December, 2012
# Eerie
# Eerie
Abandoned since 1954.
# mining - Saturday 24 November, 2012
# China
# China
China has the world’s deadliest coal mine industry – almost 2,000 miners were killed in accidents last year.
# mining - Sunday 2 September, 2012
# South Africa
# South Africa
Prosecutors have said, however, that the Marikana miners could be recharged after more investigations are carried out.
# mining - Thursday 30 August, 2012
# South Africa
# South Africa
Prosecutors have charged 270 mine workers over violent confrontation with police sparked by mining strike.
# Struth!
# Struth!
“Spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working.”
# mining - Monday 20 August, 2012
# South Africa
# South Africa
Mining company threatened to fire anyone who doesn’t show up for work tomorrow morning after wildcat strike led to 44 deaths.
# mining - Friday 17 August, 2012
# South Africa
# South Africa
Police chief says live rounds were used after negotiations and crowd control measures failed.
# mining - Tuesday 17 July, 2012
# Rescue
# Rescue
The gold miners had been trapped in underground chambers after a fire in the New Zealand mine.
# mining - Sunday 3 June, 2012
# Centralia
# Centralia
Centralia in Pennsylvania was once a bustling mining town but a fire which spread through its coal mines is still raging half a century on…
# mining - Tuesday 24 April, 2012
# Space Mines
# Space Mines
The plan’s investors and advisers include Google’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt and explorer and filmmaker James Cameron.
# mining - Thursday 2 February, 2012
# Gold
# Gold
Connemara Mining has joined forces with a Canadian exploration company to mine for gold in areas around the Wicklow-Wexford border.
# mining - Monday 5 December, 2011
# Peru
# Peru
A 60-day state of emergency has been declared in four provinces of Cajamarca state, following violent protests against a gold-and-copper mining project which is part-owned by a US company.
# mining - Tuesday 27 September, 2011
# Mining
# Mining
It’s the second fatal mining accident to hit the UK’s mining industry this month.
# mining - Wednesday 10 August, 2011
# Big Apple
# Big Apple
Apple is now worth 39 times as much as it was ten years ago – and yesterday overtook ExxonMobil as the biggest cheese.
# mining - Friday 15 July, 2011
# Emigration
# Emigration
The state’s jobs minister says the region needs 150,000 workers – or one in three of those on the Live Register.
# mining - Monday 11 July, 2011
# Emigration
# Emigration
Skilled workers are being invited to a seminar on Thursday in Dublin, with the WA Jobs Minister saying that they’ll take people back on the plane with them if possible.
# mining - Thursday 7 July, 2011
# Opinion
# Opinion
Children in war-ravaged Congo are mining the materials used to make our mobiles. Film-maker Frank Poulsen describes the horror inside the tunnels.
# mining - Monday 4 July, 2011
# Rare
# Rare
The 100-billion-ton stash found by Japan could be used for electronics – but an ownership battle may be brewing.
# mining - Thursday 3 February, 2011
# Explosion
# Explosion
Father of three named as victim of explosion in mining shaft.
# mining - Friday 21 January, 2011
# Chilean Miners
# Chilean Miners
The mining accident which trapped 33 men below ground for 72 days has been blamed on poor regulation and inadequate safety measures.
# mining - Friday 19 November, 2010
# New Zealand
# New Zealand
Authorities begin testing the air quality after an overnight blast at a coal mine leaves over two dozen stranded.
# mining - Friday 27 August, 2010
# Trapped Miners
# Trapped Miners
Miners record special messages for their anxious relatives, as one family says it will sue mine owners.
# mining - Tuesday 24 August, 2010
# Trapped Miners
# Trapped Miners
Relatives are asked to help keep trapped men optimistic, as they may be in Chilean mine for four months.
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