As underground mining gets deeper and technical demands increase, a wider range of physical and digital equipment is required ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Almost every gemstone in the world can be found in deep underground pits in Sri Lanka, a country renowned for its colored sapphires. But mining for the gems is ...

Ndumiso told the BBC that after being laid off by a big mining firm, he decided to join the gang in its underground world ... say is about 2km (1.2 miles) deep. The court has given an interim ...

The Krugersdorp-based Mogale Tailings Retreatment (MTR) operation of JSE- and LSE-listed midtier gold producer Pan African ...

From Russia to Namibia, diamond mining operations unearth these precious gems from volcanic pipes. Open-pit and underground ...

Mining companies in the past dug vertical tunnels deep underground to reach gold. Unauthorised miners travel into these old, often unstable shafts, and use basic materials like picks and buckets ...

Coal mining is dark, dirty, and dangerous work. It's not for everyone - it's for the few who love to descend into the bowels of the Earth to extract "black gold." Even as they face the risk of ...