The army has been mobilized to rescue at least nine workers who are trapped inside an Indian coal mine, officials said Tuesday. At least three people are believed to have died in the mine.

A rescue operation in Colorado on Thursday to bring trapped mining tour visitors out of an underground mine was successful, seven hours after one person died and four others were injured.

Dozens of local volunteers have stepped up to help rescue what could be thousands of miners feared trapped underground in an abandoned gold mine in the town of Stilfontein in South Africa.

A professional mine rescue company sent a large cage into the mine shaft near Stilfontein, about 140km (90 miles) southwest of Johannesburg, on Monday. “We can confirm to you that the machine is ...

Sibanye Stillwater, which owns the Kloof mine near Johannesburg, said the workers were safe and gathered at an assembly point ...

We are going to smoke them out.” The recent rescue operation, conducted by nonprofit group Mines Rescue Services, began only after the High Court ordered the government to rescue the trapped miners.

Craig Hugo, 59, fell 400 metres to his death while doing rehabilitation works at the top of a decommissioned mine shaft in Ellalong, in NSW's Hunter region, on Tuesday. Rescue workers launched a ...