co-workers, and the World anxiously waited to hear if there would be any survivors in the mining accident. On August 22, 2010 a drill made it's way into the chamber where the men were. The miners sent word that they were alive. The events that would follow would leave the men trapped for approximately two months before they could safely be rescued from their sub terranian home (New York Time, 2011). The San Esteban Mining Company, who controls the mine was tasked with reporting grave information to the families
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Illinois, justify your choice and suggest ways by which the disaster could have been prevented. ~ After reading several articles of the disaster; there could of been several things that could of happen to prevent the violent deaths of 111 miners. The Mining Company; the Government and over all Leadership for not protecting the safety and dangerous conditions of these Miner workers. The Miners had concerns and voice out, pleading for safe working conditions. My belief that all agencies are responsible
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On August 5, 2010, Thirty-three men were trapped 2,300 feet below in a little copper mine situated in Chile where they experienced a cave-in. The miners were caught in a small space with inadequate, water, oxygen, and food, none of the miners came out not knowing if any of them were still alive. No one has heard from any of the miners for 17 days and not knowing if any of them where alive. As days passed everyone in Chile grew weary that they would never see those 33 men alive but they made a small
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Memo To: Minera San Esteban Primera Employees From: Salvo Ardori VP of Human Resources Date: [ 5/3/2013 ] Re: Mine rescue effort As many of you have seen and heard our company suffered a terrible tragedy on the 5th of August 2011 at our copper mining facility in San Jose, Chile. With 33 of your friends and colleagues now trapped after a major cave in. The company is working meticulously with rescue workers and government officials who were notified immediately following the accident to find
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right away. This would mean that communication within the company would have to occur. To effectively communicate a potentially fatal crisis you would have to go about it in a very careful way. The employees of the company would need to be notified. Mining is a dangerous job and anyone who works in the industry knows the potential risks of what could happen (LiveScience, 2013). That being said, no one ever expects it to happen to them or someone in their own company. The job of communicating the crisis
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rebuild our nation once again. Well that was the original plan, somehow the plan blew up along with last standing airport in the country because of a war raging on between the republics of the world just because our country hit a jackpot with the mining industry, we are practically living in gold, diamonds and silver, of course our government just had to take advantage of it until it was left to dust and leave the citizens ignorant and helpless. Ever since that incident, things haven’t been the same
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MINING A.1. POLICY AND REGULATIONS A.1.1. FEATURES OF NATIONAL MINING CODES OR MINERAL INDUSTRY CODE The main feature of German mining legislation is its comprehensive structure, implementing integrated risk prevention through an intermedia approach with strict requirements on concessions, health and safety, environment and other issues as well as differentiated mechanisms for compliance and monitoring. This approach directly implements the challenges of the concept of sustainable development, taking
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in the United Kingdom, has 71,000 workforces working across more than 40 countries including Japan. Being a leading global mining and metals corporation, it is rich in resources, human recourses and capabilities in responding to the demand for metals and minerals necessary to produce in diverse products, ranging from mobile phones to cars. It is focusing on searching, mining and processing the Earth's mineral resources as an effort to maximize shareholders’ value (Rio Tinto 2012). Rio Tinto, Japan
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Ethics of the Mining Industry Group 4 Business Ethics 04-71-300-02 Professor Singh Date submitted: March 19th, 2014 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !1 Executive Summary This report assesses the global mining industry from a business perspective. Firstly, it begins with the history of mining across the globe and the structure of the mining industry. It then analyzes the impacts of the mining industry globally. Lastly, it addresses the issues surrounding our land—the Canadian mining industry. The
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Strengths: (i) The main strength for GFA Limited is that all its directors are proficient in the exploitation field. Among, they have two famous mining tycoons: Luca Pacioli FAICD being the chair and John Mellis, the CPA and company secretary. (ii) They also have the skilled geologist, Simone Stevin and Mamadou Soumaré who is the director. Furthermore, the second strength is that GFA is affluent, having approximately $ 4m (AUD) in bank. Therefore, they can invest a lot in equipment and technology
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