Mining

The Environment Ministry has approved a gold mining project in a preserved rural area in the storied Kaz Mountains along Turkey’s northwestern Aegean Coast, which will impact 24 villages, a preserved lake and several archeological sites.

Saffet Uyar, the owner of a coal mine in Karaman in which 18 miners went missing following an underground flood on Oct. 28, surrendered to the public prosecutor’s office early on Nov. 9.

Efforts to retrieve 18 workers trapped in a Karaman mine have entered the sixth day as the energy minister avoided giving an exact deadline as to when the teams would reach the miners.

The disaster that hit a mine in the Turkish province of Karaman, where 18 workers remain trapped underground, could have been prevented if the company had taken the necessary measures after repeated warnings, according to an inspector who directed the most recent inspection at the mine.

Last week I wrote about how good it is to be a lean company. This week, I want to elaborate more on that, because I believe that in Turkey we need to be as lean as possible.

Three mining companies have been mining without informing each other, Turkey's leading mining association says in a statement on the latest mine disaster, adding that the Energy Ministry did nothing to rectify the matter A mining accident in the Central Anatolian province of Karaman that left 18 workers 375 meters below the ground on Oct.

Romania and Canada will identify ways in which the two states may exchange information on environmental impact evaluation procedures, in the case of high capacity mining projects, Attila Korodi, Romania's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change told a United Nations Climate Summit going on in New York.

A document saying the owner of the Soma mine will not be held responsible in the case of a work-related accident has a forged signature

Around 4,000 miners were fired from private coal mines after Parliament adopted a new code to improve safety conditions

Workers began cleaning the disaster-struck mine in the western town of Soma on Sept. 11, only two days after officials gave the green light to the operator company to start production at a nearby site.