STILFONTEIN, South Africa—With hundreds of miners trapped below ground without food or water, two men from down the road volunteered to venture where no police, government officials or ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africa's president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining but ended up leaving 87 miners to die ...

ACCRA, Ghana — Soldiers killed at least seven people at a gold mine in southern Ghana, the West African country's military said. Ghana’s armed forces said Sunday in a statement on X that ...

(RTTNews) - U.K. stocks are slightly higher Monday morning, led by gains in mining and retails sectors. The mood is largely cautious with investors awaiting the inauguration of U.S. President ...

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The hashrate refers to the total combined computational power used to mine and process transactions on a proof-of-work blockchain and is a proxy for competition in the industry and mining difficulty.

BOGOTA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Zijin Mining (601899.SS), opens new tab has paused production at its Buritica gold mine in Colombia after assailants armed with homemade bombs damaged a key power source ...

Operations to rescue the remaining five miners trapped in a flooded coal quarry in Assam's Dima Hasao district are being hampered by suspected seepage of fresh water from underground streams which ...

A prospective merger between Rio Tinto and Glencore would rank as the mining industry's largest-ever deal. Analysts were ...

Copper, which both Glencore and Rio mine, is a key ingredient. Glencore’s prowess in trading, shipping and marketing might allow it to squeeze some extra value from Rio’s $50bn or so of annual ...

Ghana President John Mahama don direct say make di police investigate one deadly clash between soldiers and residents for Aglogold Ashanti im Obuasi gold mine wey kill eight pipo. Di clash happun ...

The Assam government on Thursday announced a judicial enquiry and a police Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the Umrangso coal mine incident, in which nine workers were trapped with ...