A rescue operation for eight people trapped in a collapsed tunnel in the Telangana state of India entered ... its likeness to rats burrowing through narrow holes. Rat-hole mining was banned ...

It is a primitive, perilous, and contentious technique primarily employed in India for extracting coal deposits through confined passages. The term is derived from its likeness to rats burrowing ...

Rat-hole mining is a primitive and hazardous method of coal extraction practised in India, particularly in the northeastern state of Meghalaya. This technique involves digging small, vertical ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A team of "rat miners" successfully rescued the 41 men who had been stranded in a highway tunnel in the Indian Himalayas for 17 days. Rat-hole mining, once widely ...

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Ramgarh: District administration has initiated a major operation to demolish illegal and unsafe rat-hole mines in Ramgarh, working in coordination with the district mining department, forest ...

The Assam government on Wednesday said that at least 263 illegal rat-hole coal mines have been detected in the central part of the state under the jurisdiction of two autonomous councils.

Asked about the Assam coal mine accident, where alleged rat-hole mining led to fatalities, Coal Minister Kishan Reddy told Lok Sabha, "It is the state government's responsibility to check." ...