{"id":14748,"date":"2015-03-09T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T07:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=14748"},"modified":"2015-03-08T21:21:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T21:21:58","slug":"hpakant-burma-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/03\/09\/hpakant-burma-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Hpakant – another serious Jade Mine landslide in Burma"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hpakant landslide<\/h5>\n

The online news agency Eleven Myanmar<\/a> is reporting another serious jade mine landslide at Hpakant in Burma on Friday.\u00a0 The report suggests that a spoil heap 1000 feet (c. 300 metres) tall collapsed, burying a group of miners at the foot of the slope.\u00a0 As usual there is huge uncertainty about the number of people buried, but locals indicate that between 50 and 100 might be likely.\u00a0 It is probable that we’ll never know.<\/p>\n

This is a Google Earth image of the area around Hpakant:<\/p>\n

\"Hpakant\"<\/a>

Google Earth<\/p><\/div>\n

The devastation inflicted by the mining activities is clear to see. Al Jazeera has a very good article<\/a> about the terrible social and natural cost of these jade mines, from which these two photographs are taken.\u00a0 Both show the slope conditions in which the miners operate:<\/p>\n

\"Hpakant\"<\/a>

Al Jazeera<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Hpakant\"<\/a>

Al Jazeera<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

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This is the second major mining related landslide in Hpakant this calendar year, and there have been many before<\/a>. \u00a0 That frequent landslides occur in such an environment is unsurprising; indeed I suspect that there are many small landslides that kill a few miners but are never reported.\u00a0 Managing slopes in mines is a huge challenge, but the expertise exists to do this properly.\u00a0 These landslide losses are absolutely unnecessary and deeply tragic.<\/p>\n

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