Surviving Miners

Two South Korean miners survived by eating coffee powder and drinking water that dripped inside the vertical shaft that they were trapped in for nine days after a zinc mine collapsed.

Rescuers trying to reach a group of miners trapped in the remote and illegal "rat-hole" coal mine in Meghalaya are struggling to pump out water from the 370-foot-deep pit, further dimming their chances of survival more than three weeks into their ordeal.

Mario Sepulveda, one of the Chilean miners who was trapped underground for 69 days in 2010, had a moving message of encouragement Wednesday for the boys' football team trapped in a cave in Thailand: "Hang in there!"

From around 5pm GMT on Saturday, instead of 25 bitcoins up for grabs globally every 10 minutes, there will be just 12.5.

Rescuers using infrared cameras to peer into darkness at a wrecked mine in eastern China today found eight surviving miners who were trapped for five days after a collapse so violent it registered as a seismic event.

Five Tanzanian gold miners have been rescued after spending 41 trapped deep underground eating cockroaches and frogs to survive, the mining ministry and survivors said today.

They spend much of their day clearing their gardens of shrapnel, digging up potatoes or chopping wood to prepare for the fast-approaching winter.

Honduran officials said Saturday they are losing hope that any of eight still-trapped workers survived the collapse of small gold mine.

Miner Erdal Bicak believes he knows why so many of his colleagues died in Turkey's worst mining disaster: company negligence.

Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez is the latest addition to the cast of The 33, a film based on the story of survival of the miners trapped for more than two months after a mine collapse in northern Chile.

A gas explosion at a coal mine in central China has killed 29 workers, Chinese authorities said Sunday. Six other miners survived Saturday evening's blast at a state-owned coal mine in Hengyang city in Hunan province, China's State Administration of Work Safety said in a statement on its website.

Two South Korean miners survived by eating coffee powder and drinking water that dripped inside the vertical shaft that they were trapped in for nine days after a zinc mine collapsed.

Rescuers trying to reach a group of miners trapped in the remote and illegal "rat-hole" coal mine in Meghalaya are struggling to pump out water from the 370-foot-deep pit, further dimming their chances of survival more than three weeks into their ordeal.

Mario Sepulveda, one of the Chilean miners who was trapped underground for 69 days in 2010, had a moving message of encouragement Wednesday for the boys' football team trapped in a cave in Thailand: "Hang in there!"

From around 5pm GMT on Saturday, instead of 25 bitcoins up for grabs globally every 10 minutes, there will be just 12.5.

Rescuers using infrared cameras to peer into darkness at a wrecked mine in eastern China today found eight surviving miners who were trapped for five days after a collapse so violent it registered as a seismic event.

Five Tanzanian gold miners have been rescued after spending 41 trapped deep underground eating cockroaches and frogs to survive, the mining ministry and survivors said today.

They spend much of their day clearing their gardens of shrapnel, digging up potatoes or chopping wood to prepare for the fast-approaching winter.

Honduran officials said Saturday they are losing hope that any of eight still-trapped workers survived the collapse of small gold mine.

Miner Erdal Bicak believes he knows why so many of his colleagues died in Turkey's worst mining disaster: company negligence.

Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez is the latest addition to the cast of The 33, a film based on the story of survival of the miners trapped for more than two months after a mine collapse in northern Chile.

A gas explosion at a coal mine in central China has killed 29 workers, Chinese authorities said Sunday. Six other miners survived Saturday evening's blast at a state-owned coal mine in Hengyang city in Hunan province, China's State Administration of Work Safety said in a statement on its website.