While discussions continue about strengthening safety and labour regulations in Zambia's copper mines, workers continue to die at a distressing rate. There have been at least two more fatalities and several serious injuries in industrial accidents on the Copperbelt in the past few weeks, with one miner killed at KCM and one at Kansanshi.
Friday 23 February 2007
Death in the mines a tragically routine occurence
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I just noticed that the first link does not point to a news story on mining fatalities at KCM, but rather to a similar story concerning a Polish-run copper mine in Serbia...
Thanks Dan, I have replaced the Mining Journal link with one to AllAfrica. The problem with the former is that they change their 'headline news' story so links quickly go out of date and the archives are subscription only. Sadly the same is true of AllAfrica, but maybe more people have a subscription here. This raises a bigger problem for blog links to news stories. The best paper in Zambia for relevant stories is The Post, but it is subscription only. Similarly, AllAfrica stories only stay on the free part of the site a few days. Since this is a non-profit site and I have subscriptions to all of these sites I wonder if I can simply cut and paste stories without falling foul of copywrite laws. I am planning to meet Post management to discuss this, so we'll see. In the meantime, any tips on how to get round this kind of problem are very welcome.
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