27 October 2021 06:33 in Mining by Dave Petley
Yesterday the Welsh Government released the results of an analysis of coal waste tips across South Wales. A total of 2,456 tips have been identified, of which 327 have been determined to have the potential to cause risk to safety.
Tags: coal, coal waste, featured, hazard, mine, mining, mitigation, risk
16 July 2021 13:58 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Inden: a river rediscovering a previous course and flooding an open cast coal mine The floods in Germany, Belgium and Netherlands this week have been truly catastrophic. The same storm system also caused flash flooding in London. It is likely that the this event will have triggered landslides, but we will need to wait to get more information when the priority is rescue and recovery. There are suggestions that an …
Tags: Europe, featured, flood, flooding, Germany
7 April 2021 08:49 in landslide costs by Dave Petley
The complex politics of managing coal waste tip stability in South Wales
Tags: coal, Europe, featured, mine, mining, tips, United Kingdom, Wales
26 February 2017 10:25 in landslide report by Dave Petley
On Friday an enormous landslide occurred in mine waste from the Kakanj coal mine in Bosnia, causing the evacuation of over 150 people.
Tags: Bosnia, coal, Europe, featured, landslide report, mine, mine waste, spoil, waste
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
21 November 2016 06:30 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
On Thursday a large rockslide in a copper mine at Siirt in Turkey buried 16 miners. Remarklably, the landslide appears to have been recorded on a video.
Tags: Europe, featured, mine, mining, rockslide, Turkey
19 October 2016 07:51 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The official Tribunal for the Aberfan disaster strongly criticised the National Board for their failure to manage water in the spoil tip that failed
Tags: coal, Europe, featured, flowslide, inquiry, mining, UK, Wales
18 October 2016 07:23 in landslide report by Dave Petley
The tribunal into the Aberfan disaster robustly criticised the National Coal Board for their failure to learn from a number of previous significant landslides in spoil heaps, including some at Aberfan itself
Tags: Aberfan, Europe, featured, mining, South wales, spoil, UK
20 April 2015 06:41 in landslide report, landslide video by Dave Petley
The Bolshaya Talda earthflow, which I featured on this blog on Friday was a mine waster landslide. Readers have helped identify the location of the slide.
Tags: earthflow, featyrd, landslide video, mining, Russia, tailings
9 March 2011 08:08 in Uncategorized by Dave Petley
Images and commentary of the extraordinary landslide in a coal pit at Collolar in Turkey in February
Tags: featured, mine, open cast, Turkey
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