Trade union Amcu confirms that five mineworkers have died and a sixth is still trapped underground after a fire broke out at a Palabora mine
Soma Holding executives have reportedly been among 24 people detained after the country’s worst industrial disaster.
Turkey’s rescue workers believe they have found the bodies of the last miners who have died in the country’s worst industrial disaster.
Operations at Harmony Gold’s Doornkop mine will halt until the area is declared safe, says mineral resources minister Susan Shabangu.
The bodies of two mineworkers trapped underground after a rockfall at Anglo American Platinum’s Bathopele mine in Rustenburg have been located.
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/ 30 November 2010
A fire continued to blaze in the Pike River coal mine as relatives of the 29 men killed were warned that the bodies may not be recovered
The ANC and government on Wednesday expressed "deep sadness" over the second explosion at New Zealand’s Pike River coal mine where 29 miners died.
New Zealand’s prime minister warned the nation to prepare for the worst as there remained no viable way to reach 29 coal miners missing since Friday.
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/ 22 November 2010
Rescuers at a New Zealand mine where 29 men are missing after an explosion last week were preparing for "possible loss of life," police said on Monday
Anxious relatives of 11 miners trapped underground by an explosion in China have gathered outside the site as rescuers fight to reach the workers.
Rescuers battled dangerous levels of gas as they worked to free 16 miners trapped by an explosion at a mine in central China, after 21 were killed.
Two miners died at Northam Platinum’s Zondereinde mine near Thabazimbi, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Wednesday.
Russian rescue workers on Thursday stopped searching for 24 men still missing after a mine disaster that killed at least 66 people.