Landslides triggered by several days of heavy rains killed 10 people and about 20 more were missing in a mining village in the southern Philippines, local government officials said on Monday.

New technology pinpoints location of trapped miners faster on march 13, eight miners were trapped and killed inside a coal mine in South Garo Hills, Meghalaya. In February, last year, four miners died of mine collapse in southwest China

Protesters in Peru, angry over the handling of a mercury spill, have blocked the road to one of Latin America's largest gold mines, Yanacocha, which is running low on crucial supplies, sector sources said on Wednesday.

All civil lawsuits arising from the 2007 collapse of the Crandall Canyon coal mine in eastern Utah, which left nine people dead and six seriously injured, were settled by an umbrella agreement that will require financial compensation but no admission of liability, lawyers said Tuesday.

NAGPUR: TWO workers were killed and one was injured when the slab of an underground coalmine of Western Coal-fields Limited (WCL) caved in near Chandrapur on Sunday. Raju Bhandari (46) and Bapurao Yenpalliwar (50) died and San-jay Upare (34) was injured when the mishap occurred at the Mana underground mine today afternoon.

CISF personnel attack trade unionists

CUDDALORE: A scuffle ensued between the trade unionists and the Central Industrial Security Forces personnel at Neyveli Lignite Corporation following an accident at Mine-I that claimed the life of an employee on Thursday.

Iran

At least 18 people were killed in a blast at a three-storey detonator and dynamite warehouse for a coal mine in southern China, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.

By SHARON LaFRANIERE

ZHONGLOU, China

Sixteen miners were trapped in a colliery in northeastern China that flooded on Saturday in the latest accident to hit the country

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