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A heroic rat who discovered more than 70 land mines during five years of service in Cambodia is retiring this month.

Eleven miners were lifted to safety on Sunday, 14 days after an explosion trapped 22 miners underground at a gold mine that was under construction in Qixia, Shandong province, according to the rescue headquarters.

A direct line to the White House, but routed through a third party to hide it from public view. Easy access to Alaska's governor, as well as the state's two U.S. senators. A successful push to unseat nine Republican state lawmakers who opposed their plan to build a massive gold and copper mine - the biggest in North America - near Bristol Bay in Alaska.

Australian gold miner Kingsgate Consolidated has claimed a small victory in its ongoing feud with the Thai government after being granted permission to sell the gold and silver “sludge” at its shuttered Chatree mine in Phichit.

Has your smartphone suddenly slowed down, warmed up and the battery drained down for no apparent reason? If so, it may have been hijacked to mine cryptocurrencies.

Akara Resources, the operator of the Chatree mine at the centre of a controversy over health accusations by locals, has rejected the conclusions of a fact-finding committee that confirmed leakage from the company’s first tailing storage facility (TSF1).

At least 27 people are feared dead following a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, police said Wednesday, as heavy rains hampered the search for survivors.

A truck carrying explosives blew up near the entrance of an iron-ore mine in northeast China on Tuesday, killing 11 people, injuring nine and leaving another 25 trapped underground, state media reported.

The Surat Thani bomb squad on Thursday still could not find three bombs planted inside a gypsum mine after a bomb accidentally went off, killing a certified engineer a day earlier.

TWO LOCAL people have been charged with organising an illegal public gathering in their campaign against potash exploration in Sakon Nakhon.

Four miners were killed and three others were trapped underground after an earthquake hit a gold mine outside Johannesburg, its owners said on Friday.