Mining Disasters

The episode in the country’s southwest highlights the risks faced by miners working in environments with little to no safety measures.

By Thursday, four deaths had been confirmed as rescuers worked to save miners at the site in Inner Mongolia.

Officials said the blast, which also injured 11 people, appeared to have been caused by the combustion of gases inside the coal mine. It was Turkey’s worst mining disaster in eight years.

The accident was the country’s worst mine disaster in years, and the president said the authorities would seek accountability for “even the slightest negligence.”

Dozens of miners in Kryvyi Rih spent hours trapped underground after strikes that left many areas without power, a local official said.

Waste from a diamond mine in South Africa grew ever higher as the ownership changed from De Beers to a billionaire to a Dubai-based retailer. The mining town paid the price.

The Dominican Republic wants jewelers to love larimar, the national stone. But authorities shut the mine temporarily after two fatal accidents.

Faced with life-threatening hunger, thousands labor in the coal mines of Baghlan. But safety measures that the former government once provided are gone.

The fatal injury occurred when the mine’s roof fell onto equipment the miner was using, officials said. No one else was caught in the collapse.

At least 46 miners were killed in an explosion at a Siberian mine. The director of the mine has been taken into police custody, along with five other administrators.