The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

Sorcery-related beliefs is common in Papua New Guinea and this belief system is being blamed to be one of the contributing ...

How can one rationalise punishing miners in such a manner—miners who, in many cases, are themselves economic refugees from ...

On the border between Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, a common front comprised of Colombian dissidents, Brazilian organized crime ...

The late mining historian Fred Leigh wrote a piece looking back at the disaster - here, we reprint his article from 1997 ...

The federal government on Thursday approved a 20-year ban for new mining-related ... Gulch area of the Black Hills National Forest, within a mile of Pactola Reservoir. The man-made mountain ...

The federal government approved a 20-year ban Thursday on new mining-related ... Gulch area of the Black Hills National Forest, within a mile of Pactola Reservoir. The man-made mountain lake ...

From space junk gel to hologram surgery, the team had lots of intriguing predictions. Which, if any, came true?

The federal government approved a 20-year ban Thursday on new mining-related activity in ... location is in the Jenney Gulch ...