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Underground mining news delivers focused reporting on the technologies, risks, and innovations shaping subsurface operations worldwide. From shaft sinking and tunneling to ventilation, seismic monitoring, and autonomous equipment, this category tracks how companies optimize performance while ensuring safety below ground. Discover updates on deep mining projects, labor strategies, ground control methods, and new regulatory frameworks. Essential reading for engineers, safety managers, investors, and analysts monitoring the evolution of underground extraction. Related categories include Mining Safety, Mining Technology, and Mining Operations.
Vertex Minerals’ approval to operate its Reward gold mine underground for almost the full day has turned a permitting change into an operating-cost test. The varied Environment Protection Licence issued…
Nearly three kilometres below the surface of South Africa, South Deep is tackling a problem that has challenged deep-level mining for generations: how do you make…
An underground exploration face at a hard-rock silver operation. Americas Gold and Silver reported a new high-grade vein discovery at its Galena Complex in Idaho, returning…
Updated PEA models a 22-year operation, 10.7 million ounces of annual silver-equivalent production in its first seven years and a 29.3% after-tax IRR at long-term consensus…
An underground power system in a hard-rock mining operation. Hemlo Mining shares fell sharply after a temporary underground power outage curtailed work at the company’s namesake…
An underground gold mine in Quebec's Abitibi region. Image: Skillings Mining Intelligence Cartier Resources has lowered the upfront cost of its Cadillac gold project in Quebec…
Hemlo Mining’s underground electrical substation outage shows how quickly a relatively small power-system failure can become a production problem. The Sept. 4 outage affected the Alimak…
At least 60 artisanal gold miners were killed after interconnected shafts collapsed at a mine in Sudan’s West Kordofan state, survivors and monitoring groups said, with…
Missouri S&T will develop a national mining technology proving ground under DOE's Mine of the Future initiative, focusing on underground technology, advanced comminution and workforce development.
SANTIAGO : State-owned copper giant Codelco has temporarily suspended development and construction work at the Andes Norte sector of El Teniente, the world’s largest underground copper…
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