Pictures and words: Ihsaan Haffejee/GroundUp On Monday, as the formal rescue operation commenced to retrieve ...

The council said the shaft had not been marked on Coal Board plans The unexpected discovery of a former mine shaft is unlikely to delay the rebuilding of a Nottinghamshire landmark, a council has ...

South African authorities have argued that the miners were always able to exit through another shaft at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, one of the deepest in the mineral-rich country. But activists said ...

Ukraine blew up the No. 3 mine's shaft in the village of Pishchane in Donetsk Oblast to prevent Russia from deploying its troops closer to the front-line town of Pokrovsk, The New York Times (NYT) ...

A hidden 120 metre mine shaft collapsed in an elderly couple’s back garden in North Lanarkshire. The Mining Remediation Authority (MRA) said it had been called out to a home in a former coal town ...

Part of a Nottinghamshire nature reserve has been fenced off after an uncapped mine shaft was found during the rebuilding of a historical landmark. Brinsley Headstocks is currently being re ...

The latest announcement comes as search and rescue efforts began wrapping up at the abandoned mine shaft in Stilfontein following a monthslong standoff. The mine has been cordoned off by ...

National Police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe has confirmed that the mine rescue experts will conduct a final sweep at the disused Stilfontein mine shaft on Thursday. Since August last year, a total ...

FRANCISTOWN: Following numerous failed attempts to rescue an illegal miner who is trapped in an old mine shaft, police have ... fled the scene and reported the matter to the Zimbabwean police ...