The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...

A years-long mining proposal is nearing full approval in Bradford County after the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection approved several main permits for a ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...

South African police have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners were trapped ...

Losing a valuable item, such as a sentimental piece of jewelry, could be devastating for some but now there’s a group who ...

South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

More than 100 illegal miners are believed to have died of starvation or dehydration in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near ...

At least 17 miners are believed to be trapped at a mine in a region in northwestern Peru that has seen a recent uptick in violence.

At least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa have died of suspected starvation and dehydration after being trapped deep underground for months while police ...

Rescue operations for the five miners trapped in a waterlogged abandoned coal quarry in Umrangso, located in Assam’s Dima Hasao district, have entered their eighth day, with hopes of their survival ...