Another fatal jade mine landslide in 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
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
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
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.
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.
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
16 December 2015 16:50 in landslide report by Dave Petley
This has been a terrible year for Burma jade mine landslides, with over 300 deaths. The cause is probably an increase in mining activity this year.
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
24 November 2015 06:26 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The Burma jade mine landslide disaster on Friday was a massive flowslide that is now known to have killed over 110 people. The final toll may be about 200 people, most of them poor miners living in an unofficial settlement.
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
9 July 2020 06:39 in landslide video by Dave Petley
Shimen County, Hunan Province, China: yesterday, a 3 million cubic metre rainfall triggered landslide, which destroyed several houses, was caught on video
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