Running at a staggering depth of 3,891 metres down and 2,062 metres below sea level, a colossal mine in Africa is the deepest and richest gold mine in the world. Mponeng gold mine began producing ...

Britain’s approval of its first new deep coal mine in decades was overturned in 2024 by London’s High Court. (Image courtesy of West Cumbria Mining.) Urgewald’s MCEL aims to bring ...

All I know is how to mine coal,” said Yurii Nesterenko ... in the mine’s dim, nearly 2,000-foot-deep tunnels. “The earth itself kind of protects you,” said Volodymyr Kohanevych, who ...

Rat-hole mining is banned by the Supreme Court. But its practice persists under the noses of government officials and ...