Disaster

  Four workers have been killed by a methane gas explosion at Norilsk Nickel’s Zapolyarny mine in Russia's Polar region, with several others injured. According to the company, the explosion...

An inquest into the November 2015 disaster at Samarco mine tailings dam co-owned by Vale SA and BHP Billiton in Brazil has highlighted, once again, the often ignored significance of...

The search for the seven colleagues missing since the geotechnical failure has been underway for 10 days, during which time, three bodies have been located, one of which remains to...

It is with deep regret that Katanga Mining Limited announces that a third body, which is in the process of being identified, has been recovered from the KOV Open Pit....

Vantage Goldfields, the owners of Lily Mine in Barbeton, Mpumalanga, South Africa, say experts and management are yet to find a conclusive answer to the cause of the mine’s collapse...