GOMA, Congo -- At least 200 people were killed earlier this week when a landslide collapsed several mines at a major coltan ...

Landslides at an M23-controlled coltan mine in eastern Congo killed at least 200 people. The disaster highlights the humanitarian and security crisis in the mineral-rich North Kivu province.

More than 200 people were killed this week in a collapse at the Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Lumumba Kambere Muyisa, spokesperson for the rebel-appointed governor of the ...

UPSHUR COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) – Friday marked 20 years since the Sago Mine disaster. Loved ones gathered at Sago Baptist Church in Upshur County, West Virginia, to remember the lives of 12 men who lost ...

Friday marked 20 years to the day of the Sago Mine Disaster, an explosion that occurred in Upshur County on Jan. 2, 2006, trapping 13 miners underground. An all-time classic Ole Miss-Georgia Sugar ...

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 ...

Plymouth Historical Society Board Members in front of the mural wall are, from left: Lillian Caffrey, Helen Youells, James Youells, Joseph Slusser, Sandra Lee, and Patrick Smith. The Earth Conservancy ...

Four years after the Fundão dam collapse—the world's largest mining disaster, which occurred in 2015 in the city of Mariana in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil—a study found that fish in the Doce ...

Tin, an almost forgotten critical metal, is following a record-setting trail blazed this week by silver as it rises towards an all-time price high of $50,000 a ton. Like silver, which is selling for ...

The work life of the 37 miners who lost their lives in an explosion at the Robena Mine 63 years ago would still be all too recognizable to miners today, said Michael Phillippi. “I’ve listened to ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - On this date in 1968, Consolidation Coal Company sealed off its Number 9 mine. It came after a massive explosion that became known as the Farmington Mine Disaster just north ...