Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

With many openpit mines in Southern Africa reaching maturity, the scope for underground mining promises to create new opportunities for shaft sinking and underground mining specialists. As a leader in ...

The unexpected discovery of a former mine shaft is unlikely to delay the rebuilding of a Nottinghamshire landmark, a council has said. Brinsley Headstocks is currently being re-erected after it was ...

SSR says a study has shown that the tragic heap leach pad slide in Turkey last February was probably the result of faulty design engineering by a third party.

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

The Stilfontein Crisis Committee has accused the police of killing over 100 miners who remain underground at a disused ...

Harrow Hill: a Neolithic flint mine today Neolithic flint mines are the earliest industrial monuments in Britain. First dug into the chalk from around 4000 BC, these shafts were cut in order to ...

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SAGO, W.Va (WDTV) - Thursday marks 19 years since a mining disaster rocked a small Upshur County community. On January 2nd of 2006, the world’s attention was on the community of Sago.

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