Numerous migrant jade prospectors continue to search slag stacks for pieces of the valuable gems amidst unsafe conditions throughout the monsoon season in Myanmar’s Hpakant mining location, despite a deadly mudslide that eliminated approximately 200 scavengers in early July. Heavy rains set off the collapse of big stacks of muddy waste referred to as tailings […]

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Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi raised eyebrows when she referred to current victims of a jade mine landslide that eliminated a minimum of 172 people recently as “illegal” in an online chat in which she regreted the absence of appropriate tasks in the nation. Heavy rains triggered stacks of loose dirt and debris to […]

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A huge landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar Thursday buried more than 200 scavengers, eliminating at least 162 and hurting at least 54 others, rescue volunteers stated, in the current catastrophe in a market pestered by corruption and absence of federal government oversight. Heavy rains brought little mountains stacks of loose dirt and […]

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