Twelve West Virginians miners lost their lives 20 years ago today in one of the worst coal mining disasters in the state’s ...

The mummified remains of a man buried close to a turquoise mine in Chile's Atacama Desert suggest he was a miner who died in ...

Friday marks the 20th anniversary of the explosion which ended up claiming 12 lives at the Sago Mine in Upshur County ...

A coal miner who was trapped after the roof caved in at an underground site has died in central Queensland. Emergency ...

All five workers trapped at a copper mine in Chile have been found dead, according to a regional prosecutor, after rescue teams cleared more than 24 metres (78 feet) of underground passages that ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Metals analysts are cutting their estimates of global copper supplies for this year and next after an accident at the giant Grasberg mine dramatically tightened the outlook for the ...

A major rescue operation continues to locate a trapped miner about 1km underground after a roof caved in at a Central ...