Opinion: Write to the U.S. Forest Service and county commissioners urging them to not permit the drilling and blasting and to protect the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness.

In his shop on the Idaho side of Teton Pass, Halsey Hewson, 59, has a revolutionary featherweight rock sitting on top of an electric fireplace. The same rocks ...

South African police have launched a manhunt for a Lesotho gang member believed to have controlled operations at an illegal gold mine where 78 bodies were recovered last week during a police siege ...

We could not determine the number of people that are standing there, but it was evident that people were standing around and they were in need of help to come up to the surface,” said Mannas Fourie, ...

CEO of Mine Rescue Services South Africa, the private company contracted to rescue the miners. Advertising At least 87 miners died in the monthslong standoff between police and the miners who were ...

From 2012 to 2022, 34 mining workers lost their lives to ground failure. Two South Dakota Mines professors ... design alternatives focused on ore pass placement, rock mechanics considerations ...

Mannas Fourie, CEO of Mines Rescue Services, inspects the mobile rescue winder that was used to rescue miners, during an interview in Carletonville, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025.

CARLETONVILLE, South Africa (AP) — A specialized camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer- (1.6-mile-) deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of miners were reported ...

Thousands of illegal miners, known as "zama zamas" ("those who try their luck" in Zulu), operate in mineral-rich South Africa. The mine in Stilfontein - some 145km (90 miles) south-west of ...

South Africa police search for gold mine gangster 'Tiger' 01/20/2025 January 20, 2025 A gang leader suspected of running illegal gold mining operations in South Africa has escaped police custody.