Six miners were rescued after the explosion, which was caused by a build-up of gases. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

Sweeping for underwater explosives could take months despite a tenuous ceasefire between the United States and Iran in the ...

A coal mine explosion in central Colombia on Monday killed nine people, the national mining authority said, less than a month after it flagged safety issues at the site.

At least twelve miners are trapped inside a coal mine in central Colombia, officials said Monday night, following an explosion that was caused apparently by the accumulation of gases.

May 19 Kassala- At least five people were killed on Monday when a truck and a box vehicle carrying smuggled explosives used in artisanal gold mining detonated in the Abu Talha area, west of Kassala ...

Holly Clarke, 24, and Ambrose McMullen, 59, were killed by a blast approximately 700m underground at Polymetals Resources’ ...

Stone production at the country’s only underground hard rock mine, Maddhapara Granite Mining Company Limited (MGMCL), has been suspended due to a shortage of explosives ...

“You don’t even have to have lain mines — you just have to make people believe that you’ve laid mines," said Emma Salisbury, a scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s National Security ...