The First Separate Medical Battalion has carried out a unique evacuation operation using a ground robotic system (GRS), ...

Seven civilians have been injured in Russian attacks on the city of Kherson on 2 November. Details: A 63-year-old man sustained a mine-blast injury and shrapnel wounds to the head in a Russian attack ...

A methane explosion tore through a coal mine in southern Siberia on Thursday, killing at least 38 people, emergency officials said, in the latest deadly accident to hit Russia's ailing mining industry ...

It’s an inconvenient fact that most of Earth’s largesse of useful minerals is locked up in, under, and around a lot of rock. Our little world condensed out of the remnants of stars whose death throes ...

A highlight for Mining Journalism Training (MJT) attendees this year was experiencing a controlled live blast at Canyon Coal’s Mpumalanga-based Gugulethu Colliery. Menar’s MJT programme began with ...

Seven miners were killed in a blast at a coal mine in the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan on Monday night, the second such deadly incident in the region in a week.

A coal mine blast in northern China left at least 74 workers dead, the government said Thursday, marking the third massive coal mine disaster to hit China's disaster-plagued industry in recent weeks.

The large-scale blasting at the Goantagab mine in the Sorris Sorris conservancy near Khorixas last Friday has reignited debate over the potential threat to desert-adapted rhinos, tourism and the ...

Blasting products and solutions provider Maxam Terra Solutions will return to the Investing in African Mining Indaba, where it will exhibit its range of explosives products at the International Cape ...

Crews not expected to reach blast area where miners trapped for 24 hours. MONTCOAL, W.Va., April 6, 2010— -- A miner who survived the massive West Virginia mine explosion said he had to struggle ...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration has issued a safety alert advising employers to take precautions when storing, handling, transporting, and using explosives and detonators in underground coal ...