Myanmar: Jade Mine Disaster

[paul2d]

Over 50 feared dead in Jade mine landslide in Myanmar:

https://www.india.com/news/world/over-5 ... e-3639363/

RIP. A terrible way to die.

[phuketrichard]

sad;
but these accidents happen to often as the mines are Chinese owned and safety is not a big concern

...Landslides are common in the jade mining area and can claim 100 or more lives at a time. Dozens were swept away by a landslide in Hpakant last year, and at least 120 were buried in 2015 after the collapse of a mound of tailings, a mudlike waste byproduct of mining.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/worl ... -mine.html

[hanno]

And the whole area is a military zone; I have always heard that a lot more accidents happen there than admitted to by the government.