Twelve West Virginians miners lost their lives 20 years ago today in one of the worst coal mining disasters in the state’s ...

The mummified remains of a man buried close to a turquoise mine in Chile's Atacama Desert suggest he was a miner who died in ...

Friday marks the 20th anniversary of the explosion which ended up claiming 12 lives at the Sago Mine in Upshur County ...

A coal miner who was trapped after the roof caved in at an underground site has died in central Queensland. Emergency ...

All five workers trapped at a copper mine in Chile have been found dead, according to a regional prosecutor, after rescue teams cleared more than 24 metres (78 feet) of underground passages that ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — An artisanal gold mine collapsed in a rebel-controlled territory in eastern Congo, killing at least 10 people, authorities said Thursday. The collapse at the Luhihi mine in Kabare ...

STRAWBERRY PLAINS, Tenn. — UPDATE FRIDAY: Authorities using remote-operated vehicles worked for hours until they finally were able to find and confirm that a miner had died July 12 during a collapse ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Metals analysts are cutting their estimates of global copper supplies for this year and next after an accident at the giant Grasberg mine dramatically tightened the outlook for the ...