At least 100 people who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa have died after being trapped deep underground for months while police tried to get them out, a group ...
More than 100 people have died after being trapped for months beneath an abandoned mine in South Africa. The men had been illegally mining in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, in the north ...
Rescuers have hoisted several dead bodies from an abandoned South African gold mine amid claims that hundreds are still underground and many people have died. It comes after a weeks-long saga ...
Officials in Pakistan say rescuers have recovered the bodies of 11 coal miners who died last week after a methane gas explosion caused a coal mine to collapse in the country's southwest ISLAMABAD ...
Already there have been moves by the UK, Canada and Colombian governments to block new thermal coal mines. But there remains no coherent international movement that could reinforce these early movers.
The BLS estimates that by December of 2024, that figure had dropped to 42,600. The number of U.S. coal mining industry jobs have been declining for many years. In January of 1986, 169,700 people ...
To lose one anti-tank mine may be regarded as a grave misfortune, but to lose 240 - and then have them turn up near an Ikea warehouse - has been deemed a serious dereliction of duty by a ...