Bitcoin mining involves solving complex mathematical puzzles, validating transactions and securing the network. Miners compete to find the correct hash, adding new blocks to the blockchain and ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Mine rescue workers host up a cage that was used to rescue trapped miners at an abandoned gold mine, where ...

Images captured before the Southern California wildfires of a deserted surfer's resort, sculpture at the Bunny Museum and the ranch house at the Will Rogers State Historic Park. (Getty Images ...

Mining is the process of adding and validating transaction records on the Bitcoin public blockchain ledger while securing uptime for the network. This is how the network persists without relying ...

Employees of Kagem, the firm’s emerald mine, are currently on forced leave for six months after the firm in December suspended production. It said at the time prospects for emeralds were poor for the ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, where at least 109 men have died, a group representing the miners ...

Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out hundreds of people from an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, police pulled out 60 bodies as part of a search-and-rescue ...

The mine, near the frontline city of Pokrovsk, produced coking coal crucial for Ukraine’s steel industry. It kept running until the very last moment, when Russian forces finally reached its gates.

No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue teams have said. At least 78 bodies and more than 200 survivors have ...

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

More than 100 are believed to have died of starvation or dehydration. (AP video by Alfonso Nqunjana) A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in ...