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

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

South African authorities have pulled at least 60 bodies from the shaft of a closed gold mine more than 2 km (1.2 miles) ...

Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...

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

The U.S. Forest Service has given the go-ahead for a gold-mining project in central Idaho. If it receives state permits, the ...

Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more still believed to ...

Mining activities are set to commence in four of the 34 coal blocks allotted by the government in Jharkhand within a week, while preparations are also underway to operationalise nine other coal blocks ...

Originally published Jan. 7 on IdahoCapitalSun.com.The U.S. Forest Service has issued a final record of decision approving ...

Hundreds of illegal miners are trapped underground and more than 100 are believed to have died in one of South Africa's deepest gold mines. Videos taken by one of the miners showed bodies wrapped in ...