By Carolyn Cowan Rampant sand mining in the Mekong River is directly weakening critical seasonal river flows that sustain ...

CYCLONE, W.Va (WDTV) - A miner has died in a fatal accident at the Lower War Eagle mine Thursday morning. In a statement, ...

Four years after the Fundão dam collapse—the world's largest mining disaster, which occurred in 2015 in the city of Mariana ...

STRAWBERRY PLAINS, Tenn. — UPDATE FRIDAY: Authorities using remote-operated vehicles worked for hours until they finally were able to find and confirm that a miner had died July 12 during a collapse ...

The Mosaic Company said a 'fall of ground incident,' which is a collapse of rock or earth in an underground mine, took place early Monday morning and fatally injured a worker.

GOMA, Congo (AP) — An artisanal gold mine collapsed in a rebel-controlled territory in eastern Congo, killing at least 10 people, authorities said Thursday. The collapse at the Luhihi mine in Kabare ...

“We need machinery, for them to send us machinery so we can rescue our boys because we have about seven boys over there. And the only thing we have is that machine there, we don’t have enough machines ...

There is a sense of disbelief in this Sierra Leonean village as people weep in front of the bodies of two teenage boys wrapped in white cloth. The day before, 16-year-old Mohamed Bangura and ...

A deadly mine collapse in Western Mali’s Kayes region has left at least 40 people dead. The BBC reported that the accident occurred on Saturday (February 15) near the towns of Kéniéba and Dabia, areas ...