Deadliest mining waste accidents around the world since 1962
Posted Jan 29, 2019 06:05:42 PM.
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The failure of dam holding iron mining waste in Brazil is one of the worst disasters of its kind in recent decades. A look at some of the deadliest mine waste accidents since the early 1960s:
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—Jan. 25, 2019: at least 84 killed, almost 300 missing, iron ore mine, Minas Gerais state, Brazil.
—Nov. 21, 2015: 115 dead, jade mine, Kachin state, Myanmar.
—Nov. 5, 2015: 19 dead, iron ore mine, Minas Gerais state, Brazil.
—Sept. 21, 2010: 22 dead, tin mine, Guangdong Province, China.
—Sept. 8, 2008: at least 254 dead, iron ore mine, Shanxi Province, China.
—Oct. 18, 2000: 28 dead, tin mine, Guangxi Province, China.
—July 13, 1997: 28 dead, iron ore mine, Hubei Province, China.
—January, 1994: 31 dead, iron ore mine, Hubei Province, China.
—April 30, 1988: 20 dead, molybdenum mine, Shaanxi Province, China.
—1986: 19 dead, iron ore mine, Huagmeishan, China.
—July 19, 1985: 268 dead, fluorite mine, Stava, Italy.
—1985: 49 dead, copper mine, Hunan Province, China.
—Feb. 26, 1972: 125 dead, coal mine, Buffalo Creek, West Virginia, United States.
—Oct. 20, 1971: 89 dead, gold mine, Hunedoara County, Romania.
Sept. 25, 1970: 89 dead, copper mine, Mufulira, Zambia.
—Oct. 21, 1966: 144 dead, coal mine, South Wales, Australia.
—May 1966: 488 dead, lead, zinc mine, Zgorigrad, Bulgaria.
—March 28, 1965: 200 dead, copper mine, Chile.
—Sept. 26, 1962: 171 dead, tin mine, Yunnan Province, China.
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Sources: worldminetailingsfailures.org , WISE Uranium Project , UN Environment Program , staff research
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