Twelve West Virginians miners lost their lives 20 years ago today in one of the worst coal mining disasters in the state’s history. On Jan. 2, 2006, an explosion and collapse in the Sago mines trapped ...

A mine collapse in Asansol, West Bengal has left several individuals feared trapped and injured. The incident sparked a large ...

Rescue operation was underway as rescue teams rushed to the spot as many people are also feared to be injured in the accident ...

The mummified remains of a man buried close to a turquoise mine in Chile's Atacama Desert suggest he was a miner who died in ...

“We need machinery, for them to send us machinery so we can rescue our boys because we have about seven boys over there. And the only thing we have is that machine there, we don’t have enough machines ...

Rescue operations kicked off swiftly, involving BCCL officials, police teams, and heavy machinery like JCB excavators. Poddar ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Metals analysts are cutting their estimates of global copper supplies for this year and next after an accident at the giant Grasberg mine dramatically tightened the outlook for the ...

The Central Lombok Resort Police have shut down an illegal gold mine after the mining hole collapsed, injuring three miners.

Codelco chairman Maximo Pacheco has called the type of collapse that killed six miners at Chile’s El Teniente mine on 31 July “a new phenomenon”. Speaking on a panel at the FT Live Metals and Mining ...

A major rescue operation continues to locate a trapped miner about 1km underground after a roof caved in at a Central Queensland coal mine on Friday.