Stilfontein resident, Thandeka Thom said there were no job opportunities in the area and desperation drives many to become ...

Mt Isa's underground copper mines are set to close in 2025, but Queensland explorers are looking to step into the breach.

A subterranean water pipeline passing under the Fraser River aims to secure Metro Vancouver's water supply, even after a ...

Sudbury is known for its nickel deposits, but for decades starting in the early 1900s, the Moose Mountain Mine was a prime source of iron ...

The Alabama NAACP is searching for the descendants of coal miners who were killed or trapped for days in a 1901 disaster in a ...

The miners are in a standoff with police, who have blocked their supplies of food and water and are trying to force them out ...

By Thando Hlophe STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck ...

South African police were in a standoff on Thursday with hundreds of illegal miners believed to be underground in a disused ...

CEDAR CITY, Utah — More than a week after surviving a 50-foot fall into a remote, abandoned mine shaft, a Cedar City man's ...

Emergency responders on Tuesday were able to successfully rescue a 52-year-old man who fell approximately 50 feet into an ...

Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies ...