In February 2025, a waste pit at a copper mine operated by Sino-Metals Leach Zambia collapsed, releasing millions of gallons of highly acidic toxic sludge laced with heavy metals into nearby rivers ...

Chilean police raided the offices of state-owned miner Codelco to gather information as they investigated the July collapse ...

A leading Australian expert in mining safety says the investigation into a fatal explosion at a western New South Wales mine ...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Copper production from Chilean state-run miner Codelco tumbled 25% in August, data from copper commission Cochilco showed on Thursday, after a deadly collapse stunted output from ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Metals analysts are cutting their estimates of global copper supplies for this year and next after an accident at the giant Grasberg mine dramatically tightened the outlook for the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A Stillwater Mine worker was killed in an electrical accident underground Saturday morning on the ...

Two miners were killed and twenty were injured after a mining accident occurred in Ouray, Colo. early Sunday morning. The accident was ruled to be neither a cave-in nor a mine collapse, but the exact ...