What the records say
- When
- 12 Nov 2009
- Kind
- Mining accident
- Coordinates
- 6.27° N, 1.42° W
- Description
- mine collapse in Ghana which ended up killing at least 18 workers were killed in the collapse, including 14 women and the owner of the mine
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Dompoase mine collapse
On 12 November 2009, an unlicensed gold mine in Dompoase collapsed, killing at least 18 people, including 14 women and the mine owner. Up to 30 miners were working at the site when the landslide occurred. Officials described the disaster as the worst mining collapse in Ghanaian history.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “At least 18 people are killed in the collapse of an illegal mine in western Ghana, Ghana's most devastating mining tragedy”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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