If the US military is going to be able to keep our adversaries in check, then we need to mine for more rare earth minerals.

Crewed submersible has been key to Chinese ambitions to lead oceanic research and exploration in areas like deep-sea mining ...

A FEW miles south of the Grand Canyon, thousands of tonnes of uranium ore, reddish-grey, blue and radioactive, are piled up high in a clearing in the forest. They’ve been there for months, stranded by ...

It also was the first time a specially designed cage that can be lowered as deep as 3,100 meters (10,170 feet ... to come up to the surface,” said Mannas Fourie, CEO of Mine Rescue Services South ...

Months after South African authorities initially ... but many are too weak or ill to climb out. The mine is 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) deep with multiple shafts, many levels and a maze of tunnels.

“The shaft is 2km (1.2 miles) deep. It’s impossible for ... to be sent down to the miners. Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa, where companies close down mines that ...

South African rescuers have pulled 36 bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine in two days of operations ... 27 more were brought out from deep underground on Tuesday, police Brigadier Athlenda ...

Workers trapped in a deep gold mine in South Africa for nearly nine months have told how they survived this time. The illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a mine last year ...

Residents of Khuma want the abandoned mine reopened to create jobs and boost the local economy, but mining expert Ingrid ...

Mines Rescue Services (MRS), under the leadership of Mannas Fourie, recently saved 246 illegal miners (zama-zamas) who were trapped.