International Business News - Mine http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif The Environmental Protection Agency has approved a $53 million plan to clean up the Gilt Edge open-pit gold mine in the Black Hills. The mine became a Superfund pollution site after Dakota Mining Corp., the parent company of Brohm Mining, went broke in 1999 and abandoned it--sticking taxpayers with the cleanup bill. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081010/fed-regulators-ok-53m-mine-cleanup-plan-in-sd.htm Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:08:25 EDT The state has identified a contract worker killed at a Massey Energy mine in West Virginia. Apprentice miner Steven Cain, 32, of Comfort, died after being pinned between the wall and a supply car at Massey's Justice No. 1 mine in Boone County late Wednesday, said Jama Jarrett, a spokeswoman for the state Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training. Cain worked for contractor Mountaineer Labor Solutions. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/1-person-killed-in-w-va-mine.htm Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:11:45 EDT A Ferry County, Wash., gold mine that has been in the works for nearly two decades had its grand opening Wednesday. The Buckhorn Mine was the subject of bitter disputes among its owners, environmental groups and state regulators Construction was approved two years ago by the state Department of Ecology, but legal challenges only ended six months ago when environmentalists reached a settlement with mine owner Kinross Gold Corp. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/opening-ceremony-held-for-gold-mine-in-washington.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:41:17 EDT Federal regulators are trying to make it easier for miners to testify about proposed rules that would expand drug testing in the industry after receiving complaints from a union official. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/msha-adds-hearing-sites-for-expanded-drug-testing.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:53:51 EDT Patriot Coal is idling a West Virginia mine due to high costs. St. Louis-based Patriot said Monday the closure of a companion surface mine slashed productivity and forced up costs at the remaining underground mine in its Jupiter Complex in Boone County. Patriot's also blaming a shortage of skilled miners, increased federal safety inspections and difficult geology. The underground mine produced steam coal for sale to electric utilities. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/patriot-coal-idles-west-virginia-mine.htm Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:37:02 EDT A coal company is looking to build a mine by tunneling beneath the Casselman River, a popular trout stream in Maryland's western mountains. Maryland Energy Resources LLC and the Maryland Bureau of Mines, which is reviewing the company's application for the underground mine, both said Thursday that the tunnel 400 feet beneath the river's South Branch shouldn't harm the waterway. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080925/new-coal-mine-would-go-beneath-md-trout-stream.htm Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:17:57 EDT The mining company faulted by federal officials for a cave-in that killed six miners last year is fighting a worker's compensation claim filed by the family of one of the victims. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080925/mining-company-in-cave-in-fights-worker-comp-claim.htm Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:38:39 EDT A West Virginia judge has cleared the way for a wrongful death lawsuit to proceed against coal mining giant Massey Energy Co. and its Chief Executive Don Blankenship over a fire that helped spur new federal mine safety laws. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080924/judge-allows-aracoma-fire-suit-to-continue.htm Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:55:57 EDT Union leaders say a National Rifle Association film crew tried to coerce West Virginia miners into bad-mouthing presidential hopeful Barack Obama on camera, and that the union plans a brief work stoppage in protest. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080922/umw-plans-stoppage-over-nra-filming.htm Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:17:35 EDT The J.R. Simplot Co. is seeking to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging its plans to expand its phosphate mining operation in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080919/simplot-seeks-to-intervene-in-mine-challenge.htm Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:52:44 EDT Federal investigators concluded that an International Coal Group subsidiary lacked safeguards at a West Virginia mine where a miner was killed last May, according to a report issued Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080917/msha-criticizes-icg-over-fatal-accident.htm Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:32:19 EDT A northeastern Wisconsin township improperly set property tax assessments too high on two parcels of land near Crandon once slated for a mine, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080916/wis-court-reconsiders-taxes-on-crandon-mine-site.htm Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:30:21 EDT Manufacturers have delivered nearly 200 airtight refuge chambers to West Virginia coal mines. State regulators became the first in the nation to mandate the chambers after 12 trapped men died after a January 2006 explosion at the Sago Mine. The chambers are designed to provide enough air, water and other necessities to keep trapped miners alive at least four days. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080912/w-va-mines-make-progress-on-refuge-chambers.htm Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:50:37 EDT Coal producer Alliance Resource Partners plans to develop a big new underground mine in West Virginia and Pennsylvania at a cost of up to $285 million. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080911/alliance-resource-partners-plans-big-new-mine.htm Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:44:42 EDT Coal producer Alliance Resource Partners is planning a big new mine underground for West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Alliance said Thursday it expects to spend up to $285 million developing its Tunnel Ridge reserves in Ohio County and Washington County, Pennsylvania. The mine is expected to open in the second half of 2010 and employ about 300 people. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080911/alliance-plans-big-new-coal-mine-for-w-va-pa.htm Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:24:10 EDT The Sierra Club and a Kentucky environmental group have sued a coal company that dumped mining waste in an Appalachian stream valley without a permit. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080910/lawsuit-filed-over-mine-waste-dumped-in-ky-valley.htm Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:47:39 EDT Mining giant Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. reduced its sales estimates Wednesday of copper and gold due to an unspecified failure at subsidiary PT Freeport Indonesia. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080910/freeport-mcmoran-cuts-mining-estimates.htm Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:31:31 EDT Gold mine operator Gold Fields Limited has taken sole ownership of a gold mine in Finland after a Canadian platinum metals group declined to follow through on its acquisition rights, Gold Fields said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080910/gold-fields-takes-sole-ownership-of-finnish-mine.htm Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:04:05 EDT The owners of a gold mine in Southern Oregon have gone to state and federal court to sue Jackson County for denying them a permit to resume operations. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080908/mine-owners-sue-oregon-county-over-permit-denial.htm Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:12:32 EDT Twenty-three people were trapped in a flooded coal mine in central China, authorities said Sunday. The flood swamped the mine in Yuzhou city of Henan province early Sunday morning, trapping 23 people, the State Administration of Coal Mine Safety said in a statement on its Web site. It did not explain what caused the flood. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080907/report-flood-in-china-coal-mine-traps-23-people.htm Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:03:09 EDT