Illegal mining costs South Africa R60 billion annually in lost economic activity and mineral exports, threatening an industry ...

In the last four years, my wife and I have visited Echo Park twice. Located in the north east corner of Utah, at the confluence of the Green and Yampa ...

Dozens of men sat and lay together in small caves, some so shallow they couldn’t stand up. The air was wet and ...

Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...

The Idaho Legislature's Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee will vote on pay levels for 25,000 state employees at a later ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...

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

First responders pulled dozens of bodies and hundreds of emaciated survivors from an abandoned gold mine this week, bringing ...

A few miles south of the Grand Canyon, thousands of tons of uranium ore, reddish-gray, blue and radioactive, are piled up ...

Over 100 illegal miners are thought to have died of starvation or dehydration after being trapped in an abandoned shaft in ...

The Mining Affected Communities says at least 400 men remain trapped in the abandoned mine, where many are believed to have ...