TWO people were killed and six others were trapped yesterday due to a gas leak at a coal mine in central China’s Hunan Province, local authorities said.

On 27 May 1937, after one week of sustained heavy rainfall, a voluminous flood caused the death of at least 300 people and the destruction of the historic El Carmen church and several neighborhoods in the mining region of Tlalpujahua, Michoacán, central Mexico. This destructive flood was triggered by the breaching of the impoundment of the Los Cedros tailings and the sudden release of circa 16 Mt of water-saturated waste materials.

Kutum Locality — Three people died when a gold mine collapsed in the area of Abdel Shakur in Kutum locality on Saturday.

Colombia's second-biggest coal miner, U.S.-headquartered Drummond, failed to implement adequate health and safety practices prior to an accident in which two workers were killed when a cargo of coa

SHENYANG, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Five people died after a fire broke out in a pyrite mine in northeast China's Liaoning Province, local authorities said Friday.

DATONG - Twenty-one people were confirmed dead as of Thursday morning, four days after water from a ground-level reservoir flooded a coal mine in the northern province of Shanxi, according to the w

Rescuers carry a miner out of well at Jiangjiawan mine in Datong, north China's Shanxi Province, April 21, 2015.

DAR ES SALAAM - The collapse of an illegal gold mine has killed 19 people in northwest Tanzania, a senior police official said on Friday.

Former managers of a Turkish coal mine where 301 people died last year have appeared in court on murder charges.

Hundreds of protesters marched in western Turkey on Monday, demanding harsh sentences for mining company executives at the start of their trial over the deaths of 301 miners, the country's worst in

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