28 September 2018 08:25 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Reports suggest that there has been yet another mining landslide in Hpakant, Myanmar. In the last 4 years over 800 people have died in mining landslides there
Tags: Burma, featured, Jade, mining, Myanmar, SE. Asia
30 December 2016 18:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
Jharkhand in India and Hpakant in Burma (Myanmar): two mine waste landslides in the last two days that have caused multiple fatalities
Tags: Burma, featured, India, landslide report, mine, mine waste
27 November 2015 07:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
As rescue and recovery operations at the site of the Hpakant jade mine landslide in Burma cease, a war of words has broken out as to whose fault it was
Tags: Burma, landslide report, mining, Myanmar, SE. Asia, waste
9 March 2015 07:00 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Friday another major mining related landslide occurred at a jade mine near Hpakant in Burma, killing between 50 and 100 miners
Tags: Burma, featured, Jade, landslide report, mining, Myanmar
22 December 2021 07:56 in Mining by Dave Petley
There are reports this morning of yet another fatal jade mine landslide in Myanmar, with indications of up to 100 deaths
Tags: featured, Jade, landslide report, mine, mining, Myanmar, SE. Asia
17 July 2020 08:43 in Planet Labs by Dave Petley
Satellite imagery is now available from Planet Labs of the site of the 28 June 2020 Myanmar jade mine landslide, which killed about 180 people
Tags: featured, landslide report, mining, Myanmar, Planet Labs, satellite image
6 July 2020 07:20 in landslide report by Dave Petley
A large landslide on a steep, forested slope was triggered by exceptional rainfall this weekend at Ashikita in the Kumamoto area of Japan
Tags: featured, japan, Kumamoto, Kyushu, landslide report
2 July 2020 07:45 in Mining by Dave Petley
Another dreadful landslide has occurred in the Hpakant jade mining area of Kachin state in Myanmar. The landslide, at Sate Mu, killed at least 113 people.
Tags: Burma, featured, landslide report, mine, mining, Myanmar, SE. Asia
25 April 2019 06:29 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Tuesday morning a slope collapsed at a jade mine at Balakh village in Myanmar, killing 54 miners. This is the latest of a long series of such landslides in Myanmar.
Tags: featured, mine, mining, Myanmar, SE. Asia
12 February 2019 07:10 in landslide report by Dave Petley
There are reports of landslides caused by heavy rainfall last week at Cuajone mine, located at 3,400 metres in the Andes of Peru. A worker has been killed.
Tags: featured, mine, mining, Peru, South America, tailings
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