Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In March, technologies were put through a live demonstration inside an abandoned mine, where the rover and its support equipment ...

YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories—This small subarctic city has a big problem. There are 237,000 metric tons of arsenic trioxide locked in the subterranean caverns of Giant Mine on the edge of ...

According to authorities, the 15-year-old, identified only by his initials JA, visited the abandoned mine in Petapahan Village, Kuantan Singingi Regency, with a friend on Saturday to search for ...

A police operation at an abandoned mine in Roodepoort led to the seizure of mining equipment, explosives and suspected drugs.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after resurfacing last week from a disused mine in South Africa ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine ...

Illegal gold mining activities near Johannesburg were disrupted after South African soldiers moved into crime-prone communities and cleared out sites used by miners operating outside the law. The ...

Dozens of people get injured or die in the U.S. every year because they don’t follow this simple advice: Stay out of abandoned and active mines and surrounding lands. Abandoned mines are not history ...