A tour guide who was killed in an accident at a Cripple Creek mine last year had trouble closing the elevator's door before it descended into the 1,000-feet-deep mine, according to a Teller County ...

McEwen Mining reported that its Gold Bar Mine in Nevada produced more gold than expected during the year, helping to keep the ...

A coal miner died in Boone County on Wednesday following a work-related incident, officials said.Steven Fields, 55, of ...

China has just dropped a rare earth bombshell—and the world is paying attention. A massive new deposit discovered in Yunnan ...

An incident at a former Colorado gold mine that killed a man and trapped a group of tourists for hours underground in 2024 was caused by "operator error," authorities said. Investigators ...

Rescue efforts at an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where at least 78 people died, concluded on Thursday. Credit: flickr / Daniel Sallai CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Rescue operations at an illegal gold mine ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an ...

she said at the abandoned Buffelsfontein gold mine about 100 miles southwest of Johannesburg on Monday, ahead of the start of the rescue mission. Nearly 2,000 illegal miners — known locally as ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Two Cambodian deminers were killed Thursday as they attempted to remove an anti-tank mine left over from the country’s nearly three decades of war and disorder ...

A Fairbanks judge set bail at $2 million for a man accused of fatally shooting a Midnite Mine employee early Wednesday morning. Fairbanks police identified the victim as 43-year-old Zachariah Hobbs.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved ...