Twenty-one civil servants face punishment for a 2024 coal mine accident that killed six people in southwest China's Yunnan province, according to the provincial mine safety authority.

One week ago today, an explosion at Polymetals Resources’ Endeavor mine in Cobar, far west New South Wales (NSW), killed 59-year-old Ambrose Patrick McMullen and 24-year-old Holly Clarke and left ...

On Jan. 8, MSHA released preliminary data showing that mine fatalities in 2008 declined 31 percent from 2007 to drop to an all-time low. Metal/nonmetal mines recorded the lowest level of fatalities in ...

THE latest string of mining disasters in Zamfara State remains a grim feature of a sector that continues to erase lives yet receives little attention or the regulation it desperately needs. So, the ...

A construction worker for a Nevada gold mining exploration project fell 800 feet to his death on the job in May, sparking an investigation from state mining safety regulators. Lon Shane Jarvis, 56, ...

The number of deaths from land-mines increased significantly in 2024. In many regions where even wars seem like a distant past, the danger of “forgotten” landmines remains present, impacting the lives ...