After initial news reportage, the mainstream media has largely dropped the story, showing little interest in how this tragedy ...

One worker from the Endeavor mine said he didn’t know when or if it would reopen. He said conditions there were not safe, ...

A dam collapse at a Sino Metals copper mine triggered an environmental crisis along a major Zambian waterway in February.

Chilean police raided the offices of state-owned miner Codelco to gather information as they investigated the July collapse ...

In January 1973, 10 Soviet students embarked on a ski trek across Chivruay Pass in the remote Kola Peninsula. None returned ...

Both aircraft were on routine flight operations, the Navy said, when they went down in the South China Sea only 30 minutes ...

With the Halloween season upon us, pumpkin patches, haunted houses and corn mazes are popping up all over. This year, in ...

New research reveals that deep-sea mining could dramatically threaten 30 species of sharks, rays, and ghost sharks whose habitats overlap with proposed mining zones. Many of these species, already at ...

In 1983, a catastrophic failure aboard the Byford Dolphin oil rig in the North Sea led to one of the most horrifying industrial accidents in human history. During a routine transfer between a diving ...

LONDON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Metals analysts are cutting their estimates of global copper supplies for this year and next after an accident at the giant Grasberg mine dramatically tightened the outlook ...

Copper prices extended gains in early trading, after surging nearly 4% in the previous session following news that Freeport-McMoRan declared force majeure on contracted supplies from its Grasberg mine ...