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Seven die in Chinese mine: state media Beijing (AFP) June 6, 2009
Seven miners died in the northwest of China after a gas leak, state media reported on Saturday, the latest in a catalogue of fatalities in the country's notoriously dangerous industry. Rescuers found the bodies of the victims on Saturday after the accident a day earlier in the Dahuangshan mine, in Xinjiang region in the far west of the country, the Xinhua news agency said. Another 81 ... read moreDeath toll in China coal mine blast rises to 30: state media
Beijing (AFP) May 31, 2009The death toll from a gas explosion at a coal mine in southwestern China rose to 30 with the discovery of the bodies of the last five missing miners, state media reported on Sunday. Another 59 miners were injured in the explosion Saturday morning that ripped through the mine in the town of Anwen in the Chongqing region, the China News Service said. The report also said three people ... more
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Eleven dead in China mine accident
Beijing (AFP) May 16, 2009Eleven miners died from asphyxiation in an accident Saturday at a coal mine in northern China, state media reported. Two miners were injured and four others escaped from the mine in Shuozhou, in Shanxi province, Xinhua news agency said, citing mining company officials. Xinhua said the mine was under construction but did not give details of the circumstances surrounding the accident. ... more Eighteen killed in China mine explosion: official
Beijing (AFP) April 18, 2009Eighteen people were killed and three injured in an explosion at a mine in central China, an official said Saturday, in the latest deadly accident to hit the nation's coal industry. The tragedy struck Friday afternoon at a mine in Chenzhou city in Hunan province when a detonator and explosives warehouse blew up, an employee at the city's coal industry bureau, who would only give his surname ... more Australia launches 'clean coal' institute
Canberra (AFP) April 16, 2009Australia launched what it described as a major initiative to develop clean coal technology Thursday, saying it could play a major role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute's launch showed Australia was facing up to its responsibilities as the world's largest coal exporter. Rudd said the institute, founded wi ... more New method created to find trapped miners
Salt Lake City (UPI) Mar 26, 2009 U.S. geologists say they have developed a new method to find miners trapped underground regardless of noise created by emergency workers in the area. University of Utah Associate Professor Sherif Hanafy, first author of the study, said the method involves installing iron plates and sledgehammers at regular intervals in mines, along with sensitive listening devices on the ground overhead ... more |
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Analysis: Spill sparks coal price debate
Washington DC (UPI) Jan 09, 2009An infrastructure failure at a Tennessee power plant last month that sent 1 billion gallons of sludge into the surrounding area - flooding fields, destroying homes and polluting water -- has raised serious questions about the true cost of coal. On Dec. 22 a portion of an earthen wall surrounding a coal ash waste pile at a power plant in Kingston, Tenn., collapsed, and 1 billion gallons ... more China aims to increase coal production 30 pct by 2015: govt
Beijing (AFP) Jan 8, 2009China is aiming to increase its coal production by about 30 percent by 2015 to meet its energy needs, the government has announced, in a move likely to fuel concerns over global warming. Beijing plans to increase annual output to more than 3.3 billion tonnes by 2015, said Hu Cunzhi, chief planner of the land and resources ministry, said on Wednesday. That is up from the 2.54 billion tonn ... more Thirteen trapped in flooded coal mine in China: state media
Beijing (AFP) Dec 31, 2008Thirteen people were trapped in an illegal coal mine in southwest China after it flooded, state media reported Wednesday, in the latest mining accident to hit the nation. The flood happened early Wednesday morning in Anshun City in Guizhou province, when 20 people were working in the pit, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Seven escaped but the others were trapped and chances of ... more Six coal research projects selected
Washington (UPI) Dec 1, 2008 The U.S. Department of Energy says it has selected six university-proposed projects under its University Coal Research Program. The program - the nation's longest-running student-teacher research grant initiative -- is designed to "advance new ideas in coal research and train a new generation of scientists and engineers in the investigation of long-term solutions for clean and efficien ... more |
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