Forensic service workers carry bodies in blue body bags during a rescue operation to rescue miners from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, Wednesday, Jan. 15 ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Following Gov. Ned Lamont’s address in Hartford on Wednesday, a reporter asked him a question that should grab the attention of all Connecticut taxpayers. Reporter ...

In an effort to crack down on illegal mining, police cut off most of the exit points at the Stilfontein mine in August, while hundreds of men were still working inside. The goal, one cabinet ...

Emergency personnel stage outside the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek, Colo., Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024, after one person died in an equipment malfunction during a tour of the mine ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s pre-emptive tariff threat several weeks ago against the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, among others) who want to usurp the U.S. dollar ...

Authorities began laying siege to the Stilfontein gold mine in August amid claims that at least 100 men were mining illegally. Officials cut off food and water supplies to the underground mine for ...

as police cut off food and vital supplies to the men in November in an attempt to force them out and close the mine. The police’s move – a self-described crackdown on the illegal mining ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A bill has been introduced that would eliminate all fire protection districts and territories across Indiana except for Marion County. Under the current language of House Bill ...

Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out hundreds of people from an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg ... Rights groups say police cut off the miners’ access ...

The mine, near the frontline city of Pokrovsk, produced coking coal crucial for Ukraine’s steel industry. It kept running until the very last moment, when Russian forces finally reached its gates.