Two people suffered critical injuries Friday morning when an explosion occurred as they worked inside a mine shaft in Placer County, officials said. The explosion was reported about 9:40 a.m. at the ...
With coal mining becoming a thing-of-the-past, the world will be left with a lot of empty mine shafts. However, a group of entrepreneurs in the UK has come up with an idea that would breathe life back ...
China drills nearly a mile underground with the Gangtie Jiliang machine to unlock strategic mineral resources.
In a remarkable engineering achievement, LH Marthinusen (LHM) successfully transformed an existing mine lift shaft into a ...
Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies and refused to help them, in a dramatic bid to crack down on the industry.
Engineers at a deep underground research facility noticed something strange during major rainstorms: airflow underground sometimes reversed direction. Using new sensors and mathematical modeling, they ...
A wildlife rescuer has retrieved four kangaroos stuck in a disused Victorian mine shaft. FOUR KANGAROOS HAVE been rescued from an abandoned mine shaft in south-west Victoria, leading to calls for the ...
Green Gravity, a startup proposing to use old mine shafts for gravitational energy storage, has secured AUD 1.4 million ($990,000) in its first formal capital raise. Green Gravity is turning to the ...