Survivors tell how colleagues broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.

More than a fortnight after nine miners were trapped in a flooded rat-hole coal mine in central Assam’s Dima Hasao district bordering Meghalaya, the focus has shifted to similar illegal ...

The standoff between police and miners began last November, when police surrounded the abandoned gold mine’s entrance, with the goal of forcing the miners to emerge and then arresting them.

Ayo Evans, a 20-year-old miner of Lot 9 Dryshore, Essequibo Coast, was arrested on 17th January 2025 and charged yesterday with inflicting grievous bodily harm. A release from the police said that ...

Bitcoin miners are seeing a threefold profitability margin despite rising network difficulty, according to data from Glassnode. New results from the Bitcoin (BTC) Difficulty Regression Model ...

The Little Miners Community Daycare Board in Esterhazy provided an update as to where they’re at in the process of opening the community’s second daycare facility. While a contractor is in ...

Raimundo Dos Santos Coimbra called ‘Nigi’, a Brazilian and miner of Honey Camp in Region #7, appeared yesterday at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Teriq Mohammed to answer ...

Why Did 87 Miners Die Trapped Underground in South Africa as Police Tried to Force Their Surrender? CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa's president is facing calls to order an inquiry ...

TORONTO, Jan. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sprott Asset Management LP (“Sprott Asset Management”) today announced the launch of the Sprott Silver Miners & Physical Silver ETF (Nasdaq: ...

At least 400 illegal miners remained trapped underground in South Africa two months after a police raid, a group working on behalf of the miners said on Monday, which provided footage of dozens of ...

Why Hundreds of Miners Are Still Trapped and Feared Starving in an Abandoned South Africa Mine CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their ...

A Stilfontein community leader fears that the number of bodies of illegal miners underground will increase if survivors are not rescued promptly. Six bodies were retrieved on Tuesday and 26 on Monday.