The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally designed and manufactured Mobile Mines Rescue Winder (MMRW), equipped with wo ...

The Wakefield East branch of West Yorkshire Police have asked Knottingley residents for “community intelligence”, following an increase in anti-social behaviour. Did you know with an ad-lite ...

The transboundary commission’s attention is currently on the Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell project, a proposed gold and copper mine at the foot of a glacier just across the Canadian border.

Barrick Gold Corp. and Mali are set to resume talks on resolving a monthslong dispute over the distribution of revenue from one of the world’s biggest gold mines. Negotiations between ...

New homes in Blue Sky, a subdivision built on a former coal strip mine in Hazard, Ky. As the risk of extreme flooding increases with climate change, an effort is underway to relocate hundreds of ...

Efforts to clear unexploded munitions in places like Iraq and Southeast Asia will stop for at least three months, according to a surprise announcement. By John Ismay Reporting from Washington The ...

Ukrainian prosecutors say a graphic video circulating online shows Russian troops executing six prisoners of war, the latest in what they say is a spate of killings by Moscow’s forces. In the ...

The court ordered an immediate rescue operation. Tom went to the mine site day after day, as the living and the dead were extracted, but there was no sign of her brother. “I haven’t thought ...

South Africa’s engineering prowess has been hailed for the role it played in the rescue of 246 individuals from the Stilfontein mine tragedy. 78 people lost their lives tragically at the ...

Twenty six years later, in 1986, one hundred seventy-seven (177) mineworkers lost their lives during the Kinross mine disaster, while a further one hundred and four (104) mineworkers perished during ...

We are going to smoke them out.” The recent rescue operation, conducted by nonprofit group Mines Rescue Services, began only after the High Court ordered the government to rescue the trapped miners.