Nova scotia government issues stop work order at donkin mine

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The Nova Scotia Department of Labor and Advanced Education issued a stop work order Wednesday for one of two working sections at Kameron Coal’s Donkin underground mine on the Canadian province’s Cape Breton Island following a methane gas ignition Tuesday that had to be extinguished by miners, according to department and Morien Resources officials. The incident, in which no one was injured, came just a week after Kameron, a subsidiary of US-based Cline Group, proclaimed Donkin to be back in “full operation” for the first time since late December after the latest of six roof falls in a five-month period hit Nova Scotia’s only deep coal mine. Donkin’s two active sections, the North Panel and Bleeder Panel, extend deep under the Atlantic Ocean from the Cape Breton coastline. A department official disputed that assertion, saying the mine remained in limited operation.