Just because a mine has been exhausted of its ore, that doesn't necessarily mean it has no value. A 2023 study suggests that the shafts of such abandoned mines could serve as energy-storing ...

The unexpected discovery of a former mine shaft is unlikely to delay the rebuilding of a Nottinghamshire landmark, a council has said. Brinsley Headstocks is currently being re-erected after it ...

PITTSTON, Penn., June 30. -- The Newton Coal Company has completed a careful and systematic canvass of the names and the number of men who were entombed Sunday by the cave-in at the Twin Shaft ...

Nearly a third of 260 miners trapped in a Sibanye-Stillwater gold mine in South Africa were rescued, with no injuries reported, following a shaft accident.

Emergency crews in northern California rescued a 16-year-old boy who took a tumble down a 50-foot-deep mine shaft while exploring the side of a mountain.. The teenage boy and his friends had poked ...

South Africa‘s Sibanye Stillwater said Friday that efforts were under way to rescue 289 mine workers trapped underground at one of its shafts at the Kloof gold mine near Johannesburg.