The year 2026 marks the 100th anniversary of the Barnes-Hecker Mine disaster, which occurred on Nov. 3, 1926, in Ely Township near Ishpeming. The tragedy remains Michigan’s worst mine disaster, ...

Victims of a 2015 dam collapse in Brazil, for which Australian mining giant BHP has been found liable, attended a London ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The days of January 2, 3, and 4 in 2006 turned out two of the biggest stories in West Virginia’s history. One of them was euphoric and the other left a long and painful legacy on ...

November 19 marked 15 years since an explosion ripped through the underground Pike River Coal mine on the remote West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Twenty-nine workers were trapped in the mine.

Former MP Hugh Gaffney, who represented Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill from 2017 to 2019, has, for the first time, put ...

It is now 15 days since an explosion killed two workers and left a third seriously injured at Polymetals Resources’ Endeavor silver, zinc and lead mine in Cobar, far west New South Wales (NSW). Little ...

A major lawsuit against Australia’s highest valued company over a mine disaster will run for several more years after already topping $600 million in legal fees.

Australian mining giant BHP will face trial before a British court from April next year to determine how much it must pay in ...

By: Claude Kabemba and Monica Mbugua In 2025, a tailings dam – which is designed to store waste byproducts – collapsed at the Sino-Metals Leach Zambia copper mine. It released toxic waste into the ...