MOSCOW—Rescuers have found a survivor in a Siberian coal mine where dozens of miners are presumed dead after a devastating methane explosion, a top local official ...

MOSCOW—A gas leak in a Siberian coal mine killed at least 52 people on Thursday, Russian news agencies said, including six rescuers who were sent down ...

BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo—Gunmen killed a policeman and kidnapped five Chinese nationals near a mine in Southeast Democratic Republic of Congo overnight, a local official ...

Two Chinese companies are planning to further develop a huge copper mine in Afghanistan. The Taliban toured the mine on Monday.

Poland's government on Monday defied an injunction by the top European Union court that ordered the immediate closure of a major brown coal mine.

Ten miners are confirmed to have died in explosions at a gold mine in China. A total of 22 miners working about 600 meters (2,000 feet) ...

HPAKANT, Burma—At least 162 people were killed Thursday in a landslide at a jade mine in northern Burma (also known as Myanmar), the worst in a series ...

A team of Tanzanian miners have discovered the largest tanzanite stones ever seen in the country’s history. Saniniu Laizer, 52, a Maasai small scale miner and ...

The mines used to attack a Japanese-owned oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz last week bore “a striking resemblance” to similar mines displayed by Iran.

A man was rescued alive after falling into a 100-foot-deep mine shaft in Arizona on Oct. 15. John Waddell, 62, went 48 hours without food or ...

The Czech mining village of Cinovec had been a mining town since 1378, but it shut down in 1991 because the shafts were empty of tungsten ...