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

there have been countless disasters that took hundreds of lives in those claustrophobic tunnels. Click through this gallery to learn about the most devastating mining accidents in human history ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

The recent tragedy in Quetta ... owners also need to face much severer penalties for mining disasters caused by unsafe conditions, and the lack of training provided to miners, many of whom ...