People in a gold-mining area in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been using their bare hands and basic tools ...

Editorial - The danger posed by unrehabilitated mineshafts has been a cause of concern in Francistown for a long time. Lives have been lost and injuries caused because somebody was and is still ...

Potentially hazardous mineshafts that could collapse at any moment are a frightening feature of the site earmarked for the multi-million pound Merthyr Village site, a source told the Express.

He said they ran into mineshafts while working a wildfire near Congress last week. “We found a few of them…the biggest danger is tripping and falling into one.” Falling in can be deadly.

Glasgow residents could have a convenient and plentiful source of geothermal energy right beneath their feet, in the abandoned mineshafts and mining structures buried under the city’s streets.

THE unexpected discovery of mineshafts on the route of a controversial £3.2million link road will make it a ‘highway to disaster’, claim its opponents. They say the scheme through Darwen ...

‘People search abandoned mineshafts in California for old Levi’s. I’ve gone a few times’: meet the Dubliner leading design at iconic jeans brand. As 501s mark their 150th birthday, ...

A plan to transform abandoned mineshafts under Oldham town’s surface into a source of heating is set to move ahead after the council secured funding from the government this week. A £10.2m ...

Unknown coal mineshafts and an undiscovered major gas pipeline 20 metres away have forced a redesign of new homes to include a downstairs front "lifestyle room". Local news you can trust.

AN HEIRESS last seen alive working on a TV set alongside former Doctor Who star Peter Davison was last night feared to be lying dead in a remote mineshaft.