The Albanese Government has taken the extraordinary step of moving to discharge their own bill from the Senate Notice Paper, sounding the death knell for Australia’s environment.  Greens environment s ...

Cyprium Metals entered into a heads of agreement for a strategic alliance with mining services provider Macmahon Holdings in ...

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While most of the abandoned mines in New Hampshire are not producing significant contamination, there are a few that have. (Courtesy of Trout Unlimited) With little attention in the media ...

Thousands of people are believed to be involved in illegal gold mining in abandoned industrial mines in South Africa in search of leftover gold. Some of the workers spend months at a time underground.

Thousands of shafts were abandoned. In November, police stepped up efforts at the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, surrounding the entrance to the shaft and refusing to let food and water go down.

The purported recruiter allegedly raked in 12 million baht – or more than $550,000 – after signing up 250 people to work a variety of jobs in Australia before leaving them stranded in the Thai ...

An underground metals mine in New South Wales has made efforts to plug a hole made during exploration drilling that accidentally breached the tailings of an abandoned mine. Workers were drilling ...

South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. A total of 246 ...

The entrance shaft of an abandoned mine is seen in Stilfontein on January 14, 2025. More than two dozen illegal miners have been rescued and at least 15 bodies recovered from an abandoned gold ...

The latest announcement comes as search and rescue efforts began wrapping up at the abandoned mine shaft in Stilfontein following a monthslong standoff. The mine has been cordoned off by ...