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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aluminium, machine tools, petrochemicals producing industries are called mineral based industries. Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an orebody, lode, vein, (coal) seam or reef, which forms the mineralized horizon and package of economic interest to the miner. To gain access to the mineralised package within the lease area (aka Mining Rights Lease) it is often necessary to mine through (to create access, shafts, addits, ramps) or remove
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process of open cast coal mining. I understand that mining does create jobs and it is necessary at this present moment in time, but the sooner renewable energy sources are developed, the better for the world. In the following report, I will discuss different types of open cast coal mining, the effects of open cast coal mining on the environment as well as the financial implications of associated with environmental management. OPEN CAST COAL MINING What is open cast coal mining? A simple answer to
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carefully by means of the addressees to remember. There will be some thoughtfulness to keep in mind specifying the diverse positions and persons in the addressees. This paper will discuss some of the possible requirements of the relatives of the mining workers on getting a communication regarding this specific event. This paper will likely discuss the actuations an individual has to make before and after the communication is conveyed in order to know that the message was accepted as wished for.
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