At the mouth of every tunnel there is a small shrine to Saint Barbara, the patron saint of miners. To get to the boring machine we are driven for an hour in a buggy in the tunnel. It can quickly get ...

Check out the creepy Tunnels trailer for this claustrophobia-inducing VR horror experience in which players are trapped deep underground in an abandoned mine shaft. Armed with only their wits, they’ll ...

At the end of the raiseboring – or reaming – stage for Shaft 2 of Ivanplats’ Platreef project in South Africa’s Limpopo province, an innovative solution was called for to promptly remove the reaming ...

One of the country's most remote mines is getting a billion-dollar upgrade, taking gold production deeper into the Tanami ...

In Siaya County, one of the most recent gold mine deaths was witnessed on April 1, where three artisanal miners lost their ...

With tariffs threatening the U.S. mineral supply chain critical for new technologies in Arizona, there fortunately are ...

Gold has recommissioned the hoist system at its True North mine in Manitoba, unlocking underground access as it targets a restart of operations. 1911 Gold said Wednesday it had completed electrical ...

When Lakota artist Marty Two Bulls Jr. looks at the Black Hills of South Dakota, he doesn’t just see its natural beauty, he ...

MSHA is required to inspect each underground mine quarterly and each surface mine twice a year. Agency inspectors are ...

The production shaft has now reached over 720 meters ... expectations that the Karowe underground project will extend mine life, forecasts of revenues, future production activity, the future ...

In response, the South Gobi Underground Mass Mining Institute was created to provide ... Rio Tinto recently revealed it commissioned ventilation Shafts 3 and 4 at Oyu Tolgoi and is commissioning ...

Underground mining has become more scientific ... particularly for repetitive work that does not require specialised input. For example, in shaft sinking, removing people completely from the shaft ...