The coal miner argued in its opening statement to a landmark test case of the federal government laws on Wednesday that it was carved out from paying up to $49,000 a year extra to its labour hire ...

The standoff between police and miners began last November, when police surrounded the abandoned gold mine’s entrance, with the goal of forcing the miners to emerge and then arresting them.

The Alberta government has lifted a ban on coal exploration in the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains, a move that the regulator says will allow suspended projects to resume. The provincial ...

Alberta’s government has quietly rescinded its moratorium on new coal exploration and development in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It’s a move critics say means the province has ...

Bitcoin miners are seeing a threefold profitability margin despite rising network difficulty, according to data from Glassnode. New results from the Bitcoin (BTC) Difficulty Regression Model ...

A total of eight illegal miners were killed and one seriously injured, last weekend, after a group of about 60 attempted to forcibly enter the Deep Decline area of the AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine, ...

China, India, and Indonesia are mining more coal than ever, and nations are consuming more of it than ever—except for Europe and the United States, where coal consumption is down 12% and 5%, ...

The Ghana Armed Forces said about 60 illegal miners, armed with among others things "pump action guns", had forced their way into the mine run by global giant AngloGold Ashanti and fired at the ...

Several illegal miners are reported dead, with numerous others injured following a violent clash with some military men in Obuasi. Videos circulating on social media show a blazing fire at the ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa—With hundreds of miners trapped below ground without food or water, two men from down the road volunteered to venture where no police, government officials or ...

Some look painfully young. Operations to rescue hundreds of illegal miners at an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, a small mining town about 100 miles Southwest of Johannesburg, started Monday ...

"It's because when I spoke to the miners, they told me some of them had to eat other [people] inside the mine because there was no way they could find food. And they were also eating cockroaches ...