Gold Mine

At least thirty people have died in shootouts between hundreds of tribal warriors in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, according to authorities on Monday. Security personnel have been granted emergency powers to put an end...

Nine people were killed and nearly a dozen injured in an attack on a gold mine, according to authorities in northern Peru on Saturday. A group of “armed criminals” invaded the Poderosa mine in the Pataz...

In a closed gold mine in southeast Venezuela, 12 individuals perished from asphyxiation, a local official told AFP on Saturday. “We have 12 dead today,” the secretary of security in El Callao, General Edgar Colina Reyes,...

Authorities confirmed on Sunday that at least 27 miners were killed in a fire at a gold mine in a remote part of southern Peru, making it one of the country’s worst mining tragedies in recent...

According to official media, rescuers were attempting to reach 18 individuals who were submerged after a gold mine in northwest China’s Xinjiang region caved in. In the time of the collapse on Saturday afternoon, 40 workers...

At least 15 people have been killed in a landslide at a gold mine in the West African country of Guinea. International media Al-Jazeera reported that the accident took place on Saturday (May 7th) near the...

News Hour: Eleven Indonesian men are feared dead after water and mud engulfed an illegal gold mine, an official said on Wednesday, the latest deadly accident to hit the illicit industry. The men were in a...