The underground mine destroyed facilities at Magheracloone Mitchells GAA club after its partial collapse and the emergence of several large sinkholes in September 2018

The company said the decision to temporarily close its Co Meath site had been taken in the face of ‘tremendous unsustainable losses’.

The mine will be placed under care and maintenance.

Sixteen people have died in a coal mine in south-western China due to excessively high levels of carbon monoxide, authorities and state media said. A total of 17 people were trapped in the mine, the Chongqing municipal government said.

More than 50 people have died after landslides collapsed three artisanal gold mining wells in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.