FRANCISTOWN: Following numerous failed attempts to rescue an illegal miner who is trapped in an old mine shaft, police have revealed that the deceased's body is decomposing underground. In early ...

"As a government, we are still standing static on all these shafts; Operation Vala Umgodi is not stopping; we are continuing with the fight against illicit mining." Mathe also revealed that ...

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Ukraine blew up the No. 3 mine's shaft in the village of Pishchane in Donetsk Oblast to prevent Russia from deploying its troops closer to the front-line town of Pokrovsk, The New York Times (NYT) ...

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The latest announcement comes as search and rescue efforts began wrapping up at the abandoned mine shaft in Stilfontein following a monthslong standoff. The mine has been cordoned off by ...

Conditions in the shafts, which are several kilometers deep, are continuing to deteriorate, he said. Video shared by Mbangula and seen by CNN shows multiple bodies wrapped in plastic in the mine ...

Police are uncertain how many miners remain inside the illegal mine but said it is likely in the hundreds. Miners, many from neighboring countries, entered the shaft near Stilfontein, about 140 ...

Sinkhole in Wharton caused by abandoned mine shaft The ovoid depression is one of many pits, shafts, and tunnels carved into the rolling hills of North Jersey by iron miners more than a century ago.

Steve Schapiro, a spokesman for the DOT, told NorthJersey.com that once excavated, crews will backfill the area using wire mesh and stone aggregate ... prior extensive mining, creating subsidence ...