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

The Coalbrook North Colliery disaster of January 21, 1960, remains one of the most catastrophic events in South African ...

Trump’s day-one actions on energy come as climate change-fueled fires ravage Southern California, following the globe’s ...

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing from a disused mine in South Africa where 246 ...

PITTSBURG, Dec. 24. -- The horror of the Braznell Mine disaster, near Brownsville, grows in intensity with every hour. The number of the dead is now estimated at forty, and may pass that figure.

He told BBC News that further disasters were inevitable. Over the last few days in the heart of Brazil's mining belt, I've been investigating two very different sites where the risks of massive ...

Malawi is grappling with chronic foreign exchange shortages, which continue to undermine the economy and hinder the country's ability to pay for essential imports such as food and fuel.The recent ...

Hart was among the first miners to go back down the mine when it reopened two years later. NUM secretary Chris Kitchen agreed that although nothing changed immediately after the disaster ...

The Embassy is working closely with the South African government to identify and verify the nationalities of the individuals ...

TRADE unionists commemorated the anniversary of one of Britain's worst mining disasters on Saturday. An underground explosion at Pretoria pit, Atherton, in the historic county of Lancashire killed 344 ...

Governments would like to lay the entire blame for the recent Wayanad landslide and the ... minute particles emanating from ...