A snowmobiler drove into a vertical mine shaft and dangled 20 feet above the bottom, Utah rescuers said. Rescuers got a call ...

A hidden 120 metre mine shaft collapsed in an elderly couple’s back garden in North Lanarkshire. The Mining Remediation Authority (MRA) said it had been called out to a home in a former coal town ...

A SCOTTISH family’s home has been made safe after a “void” caused by the collapse of a 120-metre deep mine shaft was found underneath ...

A 30-year-old artisanal miner died and another one seriously injured after a gold mining shaft collapsed in Gobei area, Bondo ...

The police and the Kenya Red Cross Society, which led the rescue efforts, said the 12 artisanal miners were trapped in a shaft after the walls of the mine they were excavating collapsed on them in ...

Since the collapse, rescue operations have been underway, supported by the Government, neighbouring miners, and the local ...

At least 12 miners have so far been rescued after a gold mine collapsed at Khayega in Kakamega. The walls of the mineshaft are said to have collapsed at around 6 pm Monday leaving 20 miners who were ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.

Midlands police spokesperson Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko confirmed the incident, saying the two died on the spot when the 22-metre deep mine shaft in which they were illegally mining collapsed.

POLICE have released the names of five of the seven people who died when a mine shaft collapsed at Botha Mine in Bindura at the weekend. Police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi identified the ...