Families of illegal miners plan to sue the government for accountability following the tragic deaths of zama zamas in a North ...

Dozens of men sat and lay together in small caves, some so shallow they couldn’t stand up. The air was wet and stuffy, and ...

A long-abandoned mine caused a sinkhole on I-80 last month, highlighting the dangers lurking just beneath the surface across ...

Republicans have signaled opposition to the new safety rules in the past and now the party has control of Congress and, soon, the White House.

Donald Trump has promised to bring a swift end to the war in Ukraine, but Russian troops have already booby-trapped the ...

Wind farm operators in Wyoming and across the nation can now bury decommissioned wind turbine blades and other materials at ...

An incident involving an elevator at a former Colorado gold mine that led to the death of a tour guide and trapped a group of ...

South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine in Stilfontein where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. Civil ...

Trapped up to 2.5 kilometres underground, the miners faced horrific conditions, with some resorting to cannibalism to survive ...

Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...

Investigators determined that the incident at the Colorado tourist mine was "not attributed to current mine practices or equipment malfunctions." ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...