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[https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chiles-codelco-halts-mining-projects-after-reporting-second-worker-death-2022-07-20/ by Reuters 20/7/22] | [https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/chiles-codelco-halts-mining-projects-after-reporting-second-worker-death-2022-07-20/ by Reuters 20/7/22] | ||
On Monday, the company announced it would keep construction of its Rajo Inca project halted after reporting the death of one worker after a truck driven by a contractor slid off a platform at a dump while the operator was outside of the control cabin. The truck then slid 40 meters (131 feet) down a slope killing the operator. read more It reported another death at its Chuqui Subterranea project, an expansion of the historical Chuquicamatamining, earlier on Wednesday. | On Monday, the company announced it would keep construction of its Rajo Inca project halted after reporting the death of one worker after a truck driven by a contractor slid off a platform at a dump while the operator was outside of the control cabin. The truck then slid 40 meters (131 feet) down a slope killing the operator. read more It reported another death at its Chuqui Subterranea project, an expansion of the historical Chuquicamatamining, earlier on Wednesday. | ||
=====Fighting the legacy of mining in Lesotho===== | |||
[https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2016/6/27/fighting-the-legacy-of-mining-in-lesotho by Caelainn Hogan 27/6/16 ALJAZEERA] | |||
Lesotho – On a hard shoulder of the God Help Me Pass, a road snaking through the vast peaks of Lesotho, a landlocked mountain kingdom in southern Africa, men who worked for years underground line up in the bright sun outside a cluster of tents. | |||
