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An incident involving an elevator at a former Colorado gold mine that led to the death of a tour guide and trapped a group of tourists for hours last year was caused ...

The permitting reform bill had also included provisions from the Mining Regulatory Clarity Act — a bill pushed by Nevada’s lone congressional Republican. That legislation was explicitly crafted to ...

An incident at a former Colorado gold mine that killed a man and trapped a group of tourists for hours underground in 2024 ... death of Patrick Weier, 46, a tour guide at the mine, was accidental.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Mine rescue workers host up a cage that was used to rescue trapped miners at an abandoned gold mine, where ...

A bipartisan effort to give mining companies more legal rights to federal lands and speed up the permitting process did not make it past a contentious five-week lame duck session, dashing hopes to ...

after old coal mine shaft ceilings likely caved in deeper underground. Bill Sims, Nanaimo’s general manager of engineering and public works, said the city is pumping the slurry into the underground ...

As a result, the Company has suspended underground mining as it anticipates that the pump failure will ultimately result in the underground mine flooding over the coming days. All precautions are ...

Operations to rescue the remaining five miners trapped in a flooded coal quarry in Assam's Dima Hasao district are being hampered by suspected seepage of fresh water from underground streams which ...