Several gold miners are feared dead in Shinyalu, Kakamega County, after the walls of a mine they were excavating collapsed on ...

Underground mining remains vital to the global mining sector, setting benchmarks in depth, production, and technology—here ...

Running at a staggering depth of 3,891 metres down and 2,062 metres below sea level, a colossal mine in Africa is the deepest and richest gold mine in the world. Mponeng gold mine began producing ...

Once it reached them, the miners immediately also attached a note telling the rescuers that about 480 of them were underground and those still alive were desperate to exit the mine. It was the ...

The Gilt Creek deposit would be an underground mining scenario with this deposit starting at a depth of only 300m below surface. The Company's first drill hole into Gilt Creek was completed in ...

(Johannesburg) - AngloGold Ashanti is pleased to report that normal operations have resumed at its Mponeng mine in South Africa following successful engagement with employee and trade union ...

Just southwest of Johannesburg is the Mponeng gold mine – the deepest mine in the world. It reaches an incredible 3.84 kilometers below the Earth's surface, and plans are underway to extend it even ...

Forensic service workers carry bodies in blue body bags during a rescue operation to rescue miners from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, Wednesday, Jan. 15 ...

South African police say there's nobody left in the mine after they removed 78 bodies and 246 survivors over the last two days. They declared the court-ordered rescue operation over on Wednesday ...