An old mining shaft has been confirmed as the cause behind turning the Ohinemuri River bright orange yesterday, the Waikato Regional Council says. Regional compliance manager Patrick Lynch said ...

Serious flooding which forced villagers from their homes was potentially caused by a mine shaft "blow out" during Storm Christoph, authorities have said. About 80 people were evacuated as water ...

CEDAR CITY — Emergency responders on Tuesday were able to successfully rescue a 49-year-old man who fell approximately 50 feet into an abandoned mine shaft in a rural part of Iron County.

Funani said that it is alleged the homeowner, who lives with his family, used or permitted a group of men to use one of the ...

An old copper mine at Parys Mountain has spoil heaps stained different colours by the metal ores in the rocks Ending pollution from old lead, zinc and copper mines in Wales will cost as much as £ ...

South African police and ambulances were at the site Thursday of an old gold mine shaft where around 4,000 illegal miners were claimed to be underground, facing arrest if they surface. Five ...

hiking two hours up a mountain to reach the mine shafts. Shih is The Washington Post’s New Delhi bureau chief, responsible for covering much of South Asia, and Tugnoli is a Pulitzer Prize ...

A body was brought out Thursday of an abandoned gold mine shaft in South Africa where hundreds of illegal miners were believed to be underground, facing arrest if they surface, police said.

The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has ordered that the mine shaft in Stilfontein be unblocked. Scores of illegal miners are reported to be trapped in the shaft. On Saturday, Judge Brenda Neukircher ...

A system of pulleys and ropes installed by members of the South Africa Police Service is set up over an entrance to a disused gold mine shaft in Stilfontein, around 150 kilometres south-west of ...

Miners at an abandoned South African mining shaft are starving due to police limiting supplies to force out the hundreds of people believed to be stuck underground, according to a community leader ...

JOHANNESBURG - The body of an illegal miner has been retrieved from an abandoned mine shaft in Stilfontein in the North West. This is the first body retrieved since the beginning of an impasse ...