South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6,000 abandoned or closed mines to search for leftover deposits. According ...

Colonel Sinothi Ndaba of the Benoni SAPS and deputy district commissioner Brigadier Lebohang Machakela at Operation Shanela on the Great North Road this morning (January 23), where the brigadier ...

He said one major immediate danger of illegal mining was land degradation as illegal miners dig indiscriminately, creating ...

Tragic coal mine accident in Assam prompts crackdown on illegal mining operations, activists demand action from government.

But rescue workers estimate it could be four months before this amazing story of survival plays out, when a two-foot hole will be drilled in the rock to retrieve the miners. Here's what's known ...

Rat-hole mining is a manual extraction method involving ... In one of the biggest disasters, in 2019, at least 15 miners were buried while working in an illegal mine in the neighbouring state ...

Guwahati: Gauhati high court has taken suo moto cognisance of the rat-hole coal mine disaster at Umrangso in Assam's Dima ...

Rat hole' mining is a dangerous and illegal method in which narrow tunnels are dug leading to deep pits to extract coal, compromising the safety of the workers. At least eight miners remain ...

Here's how the events unfolded: Operation ‘Close the Hole’ South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6,000 ...

Police forces launched an operation — dubbed “Close the Hole” — in late 2023 to clamp ... members of the groups on the surface, so the miners would come out on their own and be arrested.