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Partners Australian Droid and Robot, PBE Group, and Rajant Reach 1.7 KM to Reclaim and Restore Operations for Collapsed Limestone Mine Protecting Lives and...

After the pandemic forced online instruction, Minnesota colleges are investing in sophisticated equipment to improve student experiences.

Chile has a long mining tradition and it is well known for its world class mining deposits. It is the biggest producer and has the largest reserves of…

Cutting-edge predictive safety systems are being developed for mining to anticipate accident rates based on a set of working conditions. Machine learning algorithms trained on safety data accurately predict injury statistics. These systems are still in their infancy, but mine operators are becoming

Feds investigating KY mans death at Knox County mine, victims funeral set for Friday WBIR Staff Replay Video UP NEXT UPDATE 1 P.M. THURSDAY: A funeral service for the 26-year-old Kentucky man killed Monday at a Nyrstar zinc mine in Knox County will be held Friday night in Harlan, Ky. Corey Scott Maggard, of Corbin, Ky., died Monday afternoon in the incident at the Immel mine in the Strawberry Plains area of Knox County.  The federal Mining Safety and Health Administration is i...

KOTZ Radio 720 AM Federal officials have identified the Red Dog Mine employee who died onsite on Saturday.  According to a preliminary report from the Mining Safety and Health Administration, 47-year-old driller Dustin Thomas was working with another employee to lower the mast of a production drill to pack it up. During the operation, the drill turned and caught Thomas’s leg in some equipment.  The other employee reversed the drill rotation to free Thomas’s leg. He was transported to a mi...

When most people think about mining, they think of old photos of dusty, charcoaled men. While the profession is still a dirty job underground, it has changed a lot over the years.

I discovered what i can eat and how much. [ male annocer ] discor e accu-chek aviva system and save with a prescription discount card. start your discovery today. >> from americas news headquarters im harris falkner. president obama make ago promise at a memorial service for 29 miners in west virginia, the men killed in an explosion on april 5th, the worst mining accidents in decades. the president saying the government will work to improve mining safety and acknowledged it wont bring back the m...

Procedures. heres what he had to say on cnns "american morning." what better honor can we say to those fallen miners to have seminarcs re-inspect and those who had repeated violations will be heavily inspected. thats all we can do in honor of those miners so that we never have another family or miner go through this. >> well have live coverage of president obamas remarks on mining safety. they are scheduled for later this hour at 10:50 eastern, 7:50 pacific. lower taxes and less government, th...

Clearly a tragedy. unfortunate about these miners. joan quigley had an insightful piece on coal mining. one of the key issues makes it so dangerous the workplace changes everyday as you dig through the scene with the coal. but she said in 1907 there were 3200 -- in 200918. it is still gotten safer that is worth keeping in perspective as we go for the unavoidable human interest of these families. >> and miners know it is dangerous work, their families know it as well. >> let me defend the concept...