Tag Archives: Mining

• CTA says mining tragedy in Tibet a man-made disaster 10 April 2013 | Lobsang Wangyal This post has no comments yet

  The environmental researchers of the CTA refuted Chinese claims of "natural factors" as the cause of a massive landslide that buried 83 miners a week ago in Tibet. ...

• The price of gold 5 April 2013 This post has no comments yet

  The ecology of the Tibetan plateau, noted the Ministry of Land and Resources two years ago, is "extremely fragile". Any damage, it warned, would be difficult or impossible to reverse. ...

• Hopes fade for 83 miners buried in Tibet landslide 31 March 2013 This post has no comments yet

  Hopes were fading Sunday that Chinese search and rescue teams would find survivors, two days after a huge landslide crashed down a Tibetan mountain and buried more than 80 mine workers. ...

• Tibet landslide buries 83 gold miners; search underway 29 March 2013 | Gillian Wong This post has no comments yet

  A massive landslide engulfed a gold mining area in mountainous Tibet, burying 83 workers believed to have been asleep early Friday morning, Chinese state media said. ...

• Landslide traps dozens in Tibet mine area This post has no comments yet

  State media report that a large-scale landslide has trapped dozens of workers in a gold mining area in China’s Tibetan region. ...