Officials are blocking access to basic supplies for hundreds of people underground in a northwest mine shaft as part of a crackdown on miners.

Instead of gathering salt from seawater, players here must mine it from the environment, and there's no better place to get ...

A community rescue effort to help illegal miners trapped in a mine shaft in South Africa emerged after police said they ...

The South African government said on Friday it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan ...

Explore the allure of Salar de Uyuni, where crystalline landscapes and biodiversity converge in Bolivia's extraordinary salt ...

The body of an illegal miner has been recovered from the Stilfontein mine in the North West. The decomposed body was ...

Miners are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic necessities after police closed off the ...

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources released Wednesday a new report that looked at the state's mineral resources.

Meanwhile, surreal, man made pools of sky-blue water dot the region like a mirage. More than 10 years ago, indigenous ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, November 13 ... and using battery electric vehicles in underground mining. Rio Tinto Kennecott Managing ...

Patrick Laracy was confident that winter was still several weeks away, despite overnight temperatures at his home in St. John ...

Electric vehicles need batteries, and most batteries are made with lithium, a critical material European automakers are ...