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Kenya: Five people have died after the walls of a gold mine collapsed on them in Bushiagala in Ikolomani Sub-county, Kakamega, local reports indicated. Eight miners are nursing injuries at the Kakamega Country Referral Hospital after they were pulled from the rubble. “They suffered various degree of soft tissue injuries and some were critically injured,” said a firefighter at the scene. The artisanal mine caved in at around 7pm on Thursday due to the heavy rains that have been pounding the area for the past three weeks. Eyewitnesses say that rainwater went into the mining tunnel causin...

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Tribe Tells DC Circ. NRC Skirted Key Review For Uranium Mine Law360 (April 20, 2021, 5:28 PM EDT) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe told the D.C. Circuit that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission wrongly issued a license for a South Dakota uranium mine while ignoring its potential effects on tribal cultural resources, saying it violated basic project review requirements and blamed the tribe for not helping assess those effects. The tribe and Aligning for Responsible Mining said in a brief on Monday that instead of complying with the National Environmental Policy Act and...

Share For years, lab-grown diamond sellers habitually dubbed their products sustainable and eco-friendly . However, in 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent letters to several companies warning them not to use those terms. The issue wasn’t just that the companies provided almost no information about the eco-impact of their processes—though that probably didn’t help. It was the language that they used, what the FTC called “general environmental benefit claims,” which are forbidden under its Green Guides. “It is rare that a product can have an environmental benefit in all ...

Mining's Role in Advancing the Industry's Most Rigorous Standard IRMA Publishes Audit Report for Anglo American's Unki Mine in Zimbabwe Published 02-18-21 Submitted by IRMA Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance February 18, 2021 /CSRwire/ - Today, the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA) released the audit report of the Unki Mine in Zimbabwe, the first from Anglo American's portfolio of mines to be assessed against the IRMA Standard for Responsible Mining. Anglo American has long served as part of IRMA’s multi-stakeholder governance, committing to a model which represe...

Ford Motor Company is First American Automaker to Join Initiative Promoting Responsible Mining Signs on to Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA), consistent with Ford responsible sourcing strategy, as reliance on mined materials increases Intends to promote use of comprehensive, third-party assessments of mining practices to protect human rights, communities and environment along the full supply chain Will engage with companies across industries to innovatively develop, share responsible mining practices as company commits to leading electric vehicle revolution DEARBORN, Mich., F...