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The Kennecott Copper Bingham Canyon Mine sits quiet after a landslide on April 11, 2013, in Bingham Canyon, Utah. Kennecott has suspended mining inside one of the world's deepest open pits as geologists assess a landslide the company says it anticipated for months.

The Salt Lake Tribune reports:

"We started noticing movement in that part of the mine in February," Rio Tinto-Kennecott spokesman Kyle Bennett said, indicating at that time the mine’s wall was slipping a fraction of an inch each day.

As the slipping continued and began to accelerate in the following weeks, Kennecott moved workers out of the area, utility lines were rerouted and the modular building that housed the mine monitoring equipment was relocated to safer ground. Kennecott also closed its visitors center for the rest of the year.

Bennett said the company has not yet determined the exact size of the slide. He said mining experts would be evaluating the slide area and its impact on future operations.

Dump trucks sit under debris in the Kennecott Copper Bingham Canyon Mine after a landslide in Bingham Canyon, Utah.

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Rescuers carry the body of a victim after a landslide hit Zhenxiong county, Yunnan province, on Jan. 11.

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Chinese residents help carry a crying woman in a disaster-hit area in Gaopo village, southwest China's Yunnan province, on Jan. 11. A landslide killed dozens of people including seven from a single family when it smashed into the village on January 11, state-run media said.

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Chinese rescue workers search for buried residents in a disaster-hit area in Gaopo village, southwest China's Yunnan province, on Jan. 11.

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Chinese rescue workers carry a dead body they found while searching for buried residents in a disaster-hit area in Gaopo village, southwest China's Yunnan province, on Jan. 11.

At least 26 people have been confirmed dead, two others injured and dozens more remain missing after a landslide hit a mountainous region in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Friday morning, according to local authorities and reported by Xinhua News Agency.

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This frame grab, above, from a video released by the Colombian Army on Dec. 30, shows a landslide that ocurred on Dec. 29 along a road between the cities of Neiva and Florencia, in southwestern Colombia. The slide left at least two people dead, seven injured and vehicles buried in mud, officials and witnesses said. Army troops, police and Red Cross teams with heavy machinery and sniffer dogs are examining the site in search of bodies or survivors, said Jesus Gomez, a disaster relief official in the area. The stability of the slope itself is also being assessed to determine if it is safe for the rescue teams to work.  

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Colombian soldiers and police officers stand next to the wreckage of vehicles while searching for victims of the landslide.

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A picture made available on October 5, 2012 shows rescuers digging for the children buried by a landslide in Yiliang county in southwest China's Yunnan province on October 4.

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This picture taken on October 4, 2012 shows rescuers searching for victims after a landslide, triggered by sustained rains, buried a school and three farmhouses in Yiliang, southwest China's Yunnan province. All 18 school children who were buried when a landslide engulfed their primary school in remote and mountainous southwestern China have died, state media reported on October 5.

A landslide that hit a primary school in southwestern China on Thursday claimed the lives of 18 children, the BBC reported. The slide hit the Tiantou Primay school in Yunnan province at around 8 a.m. local time, a BBC report said. At least one adult was still unaccounted for. The area was hit by back-to-back earthquakes in September. Read the BBC story here

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This picture taken on October 4, 2012 shows rescuers searching for victims after a landslide, triggered by sustained rains, buried a school and three farmhouses in Yiliang, southwest China's Yunnan province.

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Men transport a coffin whilst riding a motorbike, three days after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake in La Libertad, Negros Oriental, Philippines on Feb. 9, 2012.

More than 1,000 aftershocks have been recorded by the Philippine Institute for Volcanology and Seismology since an earthquake struck on Monday, The European Pressphoto Agency reports. The strongest measured magnitude 6.2.

Thousands of residents in affected areas are sleeping outside for fear that their houses would collapse in the aftershocks. Some hospitals have also moved patients outdoors overnight.

Rescuers were searching for more than 90 people reported missing after landslides in Guihulngan city and the nearby town of La Libertad. The Manila Bulletin reported that rescue efforts in Guihulngan had been temporarily halted by heavy rain.

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A damaged road in Guihulngan on Feb. 9, 2012.

Previously on PhotoBlog:

• Filipinos grieve as death toll rises
• Earthquake strikes central Philippines

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Primitivo Magalso shows the photo and ID of his missing children next to his destroyed house on the slope of a mountain which collapsed at the height of the powerful earthquake,in the village of Songgon, La Libertad town, Negros Oriental province, central Philippines on Feb. 8. Survivors of a deadly quake in the Philippines begged rescuers to keep searching for dozens of people buried in landslides, but officials said hopes of finding them alive were dim.

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Philippine soldiers remove stones from a destroyed house as they help dig for survivors during a retreival operation on the slope of a mountain which collapsed at the height of the powerful earthquake,in the village of Songgon, La Libertad town, Negros Oriental province, central Philippines on Feb. 8. Survivors of a deadly quake in the Philippines begged rescuers to keep searching for dozens of people buried in landslides, but officials said hopes of finding them alive were dim.

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Rescuers using a backhoe dig for survivors during a retreival operation on the slope of a mountain which collapsed at the height of the powerful earthquake,in the village of Songgon, La Libertad town, Negros Oriental province, central Philippines on Feb. 8. Survivors of a deadly quake in the Philippines begged rescuers to keep searching for dozens of people buried in landslides, but officials said hopes of finding them alive were dim.

 From AP:MANILA, Philippines — Philippine officials conceded Wednesday that there was little hope of finding any survivors among 71 people still buried in landslides set off by a powerful earthquake, as jittery residents stayed away from their homes amid a flurry of aftershocks.

Soldiers, rescue volunteers and villagers using picks and shovels have not found anyone alive under concrete rubble and tons of rocks and mountain soil since the magnitude-6.9 quake struck two townships in central Negros Oriental province on Monday. So far, 26 bodies have been recovered and identified.

For more on the search those buried in the earthquake click here, and more images of the rescue efforts can be seen here in PhotoBlog.

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Filipinos drive past a damaged national highway after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake in Guihulngan Town, province of Negros Oriental, Central Philippines, on Feb. 7. At least 22 people were dead and many more missing after an earthquake triggered landslides and collapsed houses in the central Philippines, an army commander said.

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Family members of a villager who died in a landslide caused by an earthquake grieve in La Libertad, Negros Oriental in central Philippines on Feb. 7. Philippine rescuers searched on Tuesday for 29 residents of a mountainside community feared dead after a landslide triggered by an earthquake engulfed their homes.

AP reports:

Dozens of people were still missing Tuesday following a strong earthquake that triggered landslides and damaged buildings and roads on a central Philippine island. The death toll reached 22, but officials said it was likely to rise further as rescuers struggle to reach remote areas.

Adrian Sedillo, a disaster council officer in Negros Oriental province, said the death toll was likely to rise. There were reports of at least 14 more deaths, but the number will be added to the official count only after authorities verify that the bodies have been recovered, he said.

One of the dead not yet included in the count was a young woman whose body was dug out of a landslide in the mountain village of Solongon in La Libertad town. An unknown number of people were trapped there when a part of the mountain collapsed on about 100 houses.

Manila's ABS-CBN television showed footage of the woman's parents wailing at the landslide site after her body was retrieved late Tuesday by soldiers using shovels. The report said the woman had managed to send a text message to her relatives hours earlier telling them she was still alive and pleading for rescuers to hurry.

"We have no water and power because electric posts were toppled," Guihulngan Mayor Ernesto Reyes told The Associated Press by phone. "Many of our roads were damaged, including bridges, and stores are closed. We're isolated."

Read the full story.

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Filipinos view their houses damaged by a landslide a day after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake in La Libertad town, province of Negros Oriental, Central Philippines, on Feb. 7.

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Filipinos carry the coffin of their relative who was killed during a 6.9-magnitude earthquake in Tayasan Town, province of Negros Oriental, Central Philippines, on Feb. 7.

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People return to their homes after a landslide at a mining community at Napnapan village in Compostela Valley, southern Philippines, on Jan. 6, 2012. Rescuers dug through mud and debris in a search for people missing in a landslide that buried a gold-rush village in the southern Philippines.

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Rescuers use shovels to dig at the site of a landslide during a search and rescue operation on Jan. 6, 2012.

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16 people were confirmed rescued after the landslide struck at dawn on Jan. 5, burying at least 50 shanty houses in the village.

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The extent of the landslide that buried a small-scale mining community is shown on Jan. 6.

The Associated Press reports from MANILA, Philippines:

The Philippine government on Friday ordered the shutdown of gold-mining tunnels threatened by landslides in a southern town where a chunk of a mountain tumbled down on sleeping residents, killing at least 27 people. 

Mine shafts honeycomb the hills and mountains in Pantukan, making them unstable and causing frequent accidents. The area is a magnet for the poor and the unemployed who do not have any training in mining but hope to strike it rich in a country where the poorest live on about one dollar a day. The miners dig for gold with basic implements — pickaxes and iron bars — and carry the ore in sacks on their backs. Read the full story.

See earlier images of the tragedy in Thursday's post on PhotoBlog. 

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Damaged houses after a landslide hit a community of small-scale miners at Napnapan village in Pantukan town in Compostella Valley, Southern Mindanao, Philippines, on Jan. 05, 2012.

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People search for relatives after the landslide.

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The landslide occurred at dawn in the village of Napnapan, where hundreds of small-scale miners were staying with their families.

The Associated Press reports from MANILA, Philippines: 

A landslide tore through a small-scale gold mining site in the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least 25 people and burying dozens more, months after government officials warned miners that the mountain above them was guaranteed to crumble.

The mountainside in Napnapan village in Pantukan township collapsed around 3 a.m., when most residents were asleep, sweeping away about 50 houses, shanties and other buildings, officials said.

Aside from those confirmed dead, more than 100 people were believed buried in the rubble, Compostela Valley provincial Gov. Arturo Uy said. Continue reading.

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Relatives of people missing after a landslide await in La Cruz, Narino Department, Colombia on Dec. 13, 2011. Colombian authorities say a landslide in a mountainous southwestern region has killed a child and left about 15 people missing.

AP reports:

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian authorities say a landslide in a mountainous southwestern region has killed a child and left about 15 people missing.

Persistent heavy rains since September have wrought havoc across the rugged South American nation.

Regional civil defense director Mario Fernando Orozco tells The Associated Press that the latest disaster buried three homes in the town of La Cruz in Narino state around sunset Monday.

He says the body of a child age 7 or 8 has been recovered and that another 15 bodies are believed to still be buried in mud and debris.

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Relatives of people missing after a landslide cry in La Cruz, Narino Department, Colombia on Dec. 13, 2011.

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Rescue workers carry the body of a person trapped after a landslide, in La Cruz, Narino Department, on Dec. 13, 2011.

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A landslide after Sunday's heavy rainstorm collapsed a section of a coastal bluff road in San Pedro, seen Monday Nov. 21, 2011. There were no injuries or property damaged. A Los Angeles official says the stretch of road that collapsed is likely irreparable and a new route for the scenic roadway will have to be considered.

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A different view of the landslide after Sunday's heavy rainstorm collapsed a section of a coastal bluff road.

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A chunk of road in Paseo Del Mar which slid into the ocean Sunday in high rainfall is seen in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, November 21, 2011. The road had been eroding since June, and the road closed since September.

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LOS ANGELES — Residents of a coastal neighborhood were worried Monday about safety and property values after a large chunk of a street and the coastal bluff it sat on crumbled into the ocean amid heavy rains on Sunday.

A section of Paseo Del Mar in the San Pedro area that for months had been creeping toward the ocean collapsed as a storm struck, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said in a statement. In recent weeks the section had been moving at about 4 inches a day. Read more...

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