Porgera Mine Explosives Explosion- Mining Accident Database
August 1994, Dyno Wesfarmers Limited (DWL), Papua New Guinea (PNG), explosive manufacturing facility at the Porgera Gold Mine was totally destroyed by two explosions, with the loss of eleven lives. Extensive damage was done to nearby mine facilities and numerous mine employees suffered other injuries.
Porgera Gold Mine - Wikipedia
In August 1994, eleven workers were killed when a blast destroyed the Dyno Wesfarmers explosives factory at the Porgera Gold Mine. The explosion left a crater 40 meters wide and 15 meters deep, damaging property up to 2 kilometers away. The cause of the accident was never determined. [24]
Blast kills 11 at PNG gold mine - UPI Archives
SYDNEY, August 2 -- Eleven people were killed Tuesday in a massive blast at Papua New Guinea's Porgera mine, one of the world's biggest gold mines, Australian newspapers said. Shares in the...
August 1994, Dyno Wesfarmers Limited (DWL), Papua New Guinea (PNG), explosive Safety, manufacturing facility at the Porgera Gold Mine was totally destroyed by two explosions, with the loss of eleven lives. Extensive damage was done to nearby mine facilities and numerous mine employ-ees suffered other injuries.
PNG authorizes lethal force to quell deadly violence near Porgera mine
2024年9月16日 · Video and photos circulating online appear to show heavily armed men walking through Porgera township, buildings on fire, and women and children displaced by the unrest. Police Commissioner David...
Tribal Battle at Gold Mine Leaves Dozens Dead - Newsweek
2024年9月17日 · New Porgera, one of the biggest producers of gold in the world, has halted operations until at least Thursday due to the escalating conflict. Homes and businesses in the nearby Suyan village were...
On the morning of the 2nd August 1994 an explosion occurred at the Dyno Westfarmers explosives plant at the Porgera Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea. It was unknown at that time if this explosion killed the eleven employees working in the plant.
A walk through the valley of death - The Sydney Morning Herald
2009年6月9日 · Police tumbled out of the trucks and worked their way up the hill, burning every structure they found. Homes, shanties, pig stys and market gardens were torched. Violence is not new to the Porgera Valley in Papua New Guinea's central highlands, but since the gold mine came it has changed.
1994 GOLD MINE EXPLOSION BRINGS SUBROGATION
1998年8月2日 · Dyno Nobel Asia Pacific Ltd. was the onsite explosives contractor at the mine when an Aug. 2, 1994, explosion killed 11 men and caused major damage at the mine, 373 miles northwest of Port...
List of ammonium nitrate incidents and disasters - Wikipedia
At 9:45 am, 2 August 1994, 11 workers were killed when the sensitised AN emulsion plant they were working on exploded at the Porgera Gold Mine. The fatal explosion involved at most a few tonnes of explosive.