Mexico's government in early 2022 will start searching for the bodies of dozens of coal miners killed more than a decade ago in one of the country's worst mining disasters, an official said on Friday.

From Indonesia’s Grasberg mudslide to Chile’s El Teniente collapse, 2025 has witnessed unprecedented copper mine disasters.

Ronnie Sando of Beaver Meadows, stands at a commemorative storyboard plaque Sunday at the newly unveiled Sheppton community park. The park pays tribute to the famous 1963 mine tragedy and miracle in ...

The copper market is long accustomed to unexpected supply hits but the catastrophic events at Freeport-McMoRan's Grasberg ...

Two of the most devastating and deadly coal mine disasters in Wyoming history hit Kemmerer mines over a 13-month period from ...

Documents showing safety records were falsified after a mine disaster which killed 266 people have been on display in Wrexham. They were among a host of exhibits marking the anniversary of the ...

Dennis Smedley, 101, is thought to be the last surviving employee who worked at Creswell Colliery when 80 men died during an underground fire at the pit's main trunk conveyor transfer point on 26 ...

Freeport-McMoRan Inc. ’s declaration of force majeure at its Grasberg mine in Indonesia — where two employees are dead and five missing after a massive mud flow — couldn’t have come at a worse time ...

Thirteen miners died in a pair of explosions at the Jim Walter Resources Mine No. 5 on September 23, 2001. The initial ...