Early on October 21, 1966, 140,000 cubic yards of coal waste from the nearby mine slid from the hill above the Aberfan and buried all the buildings on its path. The accident lasted for not more than a ...

Officials in Yukon say they believe about 19 million litres of cyanide-contaminated water leaked from a containment pond at ...

Emergency services say they have recovered the bodies of the miners, 24 hours after the incident was first reported by the ...

It was standing room only in Sullivan's City Hall council chambers on Thursday morning as Mayor JD Wilson presided over a ...

Beamish Museum will hold an act of remembrance in its 1900s Pit Village chapel on Saturday to commemorate the disaster. There ...

With the recovery of the last of 10 bodies from a collapsed Coahuila mine, Sheinbaum said Mexico would build a memorial to ...

At least 48 people were killed in the collapse of an illegally operated gold mine in western Mali Saturday, authorities and ...

Rat-hole mining is banned by the Supreme Court. But its practice persists under the noses of government officials and ...

At least 48 people have been killed in the collapse of an illegal gold mine in western Mali, local sources confirmed.

The death toll in the Umrangso coal mine disaster has risen to five after search and rescue teams recovered another body from the flooded mine in the 3 Kilo area of Assam’s Dima Hasao district on ...