A sinkhole closed the highway’s right lane in Wharton for several days in late December while crews repaired the damage. The ...

By 11 am on Sunday, local authorities confirmed that 10 residential houses and one production building had been buried in ...

Rat-hole mining is banned by the Supreme Court. But its practice persists under the noses of government officials and ...

Two miners died while 18 others were rescued at the Tumaini gold mine in Museno Village, Kakamega County after the walls of ...

Several artisanal miners are feared dead at the Tumaini gold mine site in Museno Village, Shinyalu Constituency, Kakamega ...

Thirteen artisanal miners, including women and three children, were killed in southwest Mali on Wednesday after a tunnel in which they were digging for gold flooded, the national union of gold ...

Yaya Diallo, the third vice president of Danga's youth, confirmed the fatalities, stating that five women were from Danga and ...

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such as the December 2021 tragedy in Siaya County’s Abimbo mine and the May 2024 disaster in Dabel, northern Kenya, are grim reminders of the risks miners face daily. These incidents claimed ...

Nearly three weeks after a collapse inside the main access tunnel of a mine in Chile trapped 33 miners inside, all are reportedly alive, and recently began receiving emergency supplies through a ...

This is not the first time an accident at Velenje turned deadly. In 2003, two miners were killed in a pillar collapse.

POLICE have released the names of five of the seven people who died when a mine shaft collapsed at Botha Mine in Bindura at the weekend. Police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi identified the ...