Ambulances are parked outside the mine as efforts continue to rescue the workers (Image: AFP via Getty Images) 09:50 Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas. Latest mining accident in South Africa.

Rescue efforts were under way in South Africa on Friday as more than 200 miners were trapped at a gold mine for a second day. Mining company Sibanye-Stillwater said on Thursday that the miners ...

Mine shaft 'must be made safe' before workers pulled out. That's what the chief inspector of mines, David Msiza, has said this morning as concerns grow for the 300 workers, who are stuck down the ...

Discover how South Africa's innovative Mobile Mines Rescue Winder played a pivotal role in rescuing 246 miners from the ...

This image shows rescue workers standing around a coal mine where at least nine workers are trapped, in Umrangso, Dimapur Hasao district in the state of Assam, India, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025.

A rescue operation in Colorado on Thursday to bring trapped mining tour visitors out of an underground mine was successful, seven hours after one person died and four others were injured. Gov ...

The mine was named after Mollie Kathleen Gortner, who became the first woman in the Cripple Creek Gold Camp to strike gold, in 1891. Cripple Creek, a town of about 1,100 people , is about 20 miles ...

Central Mine Rescue’s commemorative coin features the original logo on one side and a special 100-year anniversary design on the other. Thirteen-hundred coins were sold as a fundraiser for the ...

Impala Canada's Lac Des Iles' palladium mine will be among the competitors when provincial mine-rescue competitions begin at various district events early next month. The competitions overseen by ...

In mining work the need for the construction of apparatus on scientific lines is being more and more realised, and this is especially so in the case of mine rescue apparatus.