Miner caught in flooding found dead in West Virginia
A miner who'd been missing since the weekend inside a flooded West Virginia coal mine has been found dead, Gov. Patrick Morissey said.
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A miner who'd been missing since the weekend inside a flooded West Virginia coal mine has been found dead, Gov. Patrick Morissey said.
Local, state and federal agencies are searching for a missing coal miner who became trapped inside a flooded mine on Saturday in West Virginia.
A rescue team in South Africa has finished a recovery operation to find more than 200 miners trapped in an abandoned gold mine. CBS News foreign correspondent Chris Livesay reports.
South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an abandoned shaft to face arrest.
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A fatal accident at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Colorado left tourists trapped deep underground for hours. A successful rescue operation brought 12 visitors out after the tour guide was killed and four others were injured. Carter Evans has more.
At least one person was killed and four others injured when authorities said a mechanical issue occurred involving an elevator in the Mollie Kathleen Mine, a tourist attraction near Colorado Springs. Another 12 people remained stranded underground in the mine. Carter Evans has the latest.
A search is underway on Indonesia's Sulawesi island for dozens of people feared missing after a deadly landslide at an unauthorized goldmine.
A local journalist in Venezuela says an apparent wall collapse in pit gold mine has left more than 100 people buried.
A regional jet carrying workers to Rio Tinto's Diavik diamond mine in Canada's Northwest Territories crashed, killing an unknown number of people.
The side of a mountain in China's Yunnan province cascaded down into a village, burying homes and leaving at least 47 people missing, local officials said.
The company operating the mine in southern Peru said 175 overnight shift workers were evacuated safely, but at least 27 died.
China has seen a slew of deadly industrial and construction accidents in recent months as a result of poor safety training, weak regulation and corrupt officials.