On Dec. 26, in the waning days of her tenure, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland delivered a 20-year ban on new mining claims ...

Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...

Environmentalist Justin Landry Chekoua says he’s shocked by images of century-old trees uprooted and rivers contaminated in ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 60 ...

In a police crackdown at an illegal gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, 78 people died and hundreds were rescued. The ...

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

A Congolese court has sentenced three Chinese citizens to seven years in prison after they were arrested in possession of ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...

TELLER COUNTY, Colo. — An accident at a tourist gold mine in Cripple Creek that killed a man and left more than a dozen ...