Illegal miners trapped nearly a mile below ground reportedly avoided dying of hunger by resorting to cannibalism.
Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.
The Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission says the outcome of the Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell project, if it ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
David van Wyk sees transforming abandoned mines into development facilities as a solution to illegal mining, creating jobs ...
left behind by decades of mining when South Africa was the world’s biggest gold producer. It’s also operating century-old underground shafts around Barberton, the site of the country’s first ...
The Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine elevator breakdown was “not attributed to current mine practices or equipment malfunctions,” ...