Canadian miner Lundin must permanently close its Alcaparrosa copper mine in Chile, the South American nation's environmental regulator said on Thursday, after a massive sinkhole cracked open near the ...

Shipments of uranium ore are expected to resume in February after the Navajo Nation reached a settlement with a mining ...

The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...

(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) Rescuer workers assist an illegal miner who has been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo ...

One African country is home to the deepest gold mine in the world with staggering depths and intense temperatures.

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at ...

He had looked for work unsuccessfully she said, and was driven by desperation to eke out a dangerous living deep underground ...

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa ... also pulled out from deep underground since the ...