Lisa Kraus says it's been a difficult two years in the tiny central British Columbia community of Likely, where the collapse of a massive tailings dam at the Mount Polley mine opened wounds that have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Family members and friends pay their respects to Dale "Bird" Black at Huntington City Cemetery on April 21, 2007. Dale, 48, died ...

Some of the worst mining disasters do not happen in mines. They take place at dams. After minerals are extracted from mines, there are waste materials — including sand, rock and chemicals. They're ...

SAGO, WV (WVNS) — There are many mine disasters that have occurred in the Mountain State throughout the years. One such disaster is the Sago Mine Disaster that occurred on January 2, 2006 at the the ...

From a Brazilian mining company's toxic mudslide to China's Banqiao Dam disaster that killed 230,000 people and was hidden for 30 years, these catastrophic failures reveal how negligence, flawed ...

A memorial in honor of the 12 Sago miners who lost their lives was placed by the historic Covered Bridge in Philippi. Three of the men who died in the accident were from Barbour County. (Photo ...

By Kylie Madry SANTIAGO, April 13 (Reuters) - Chilean state copper miner Codelco was fined by labor authorities after last ...

Geohazards, including landslides, debris flows, rockfalls, ground subsidence, mine failures, underground collapses, and geotechnical instabilities, pose ...

When YNSAT started life as a European Space Agency project, the aim was to democratise satellite data for everyone, focusing ...

A marble-hills collapse in Mardan buried nine workers, highlighting unsafe mining across Pakistan. The article cites missing ...