A rescue mission is underway for the hundreds of illegal miners thought to still be underground in a disused shaft in South Africa Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

Bitcoin miners reported a drop in monthly production as mining difficulty — the computational power required to confirm BTC transactions and mine new blocks — continued to increase.

A months-long standoff between South African authorities and illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine in the town of Stilfontein ended this week with at least 78 people killed – likely from ...

Rescuers have hoisted illegal miners and several bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, where reports emerge that hundreds may be trapped and at least 100 may have already died.

5. The build-up of combustible gases in a coal mine is called a ____ ____, from the German word for ‘vapour’. Fill in the blanks. While Davy’s lamp often alerted miners to their presence ...

As It Happens6:10'Please pray for us,' says sister of missing South African miner as police halt rescue operation First responders pulled dozens of bodies and hundreds of emaciated survivors from ...

Bitcoin miners are seeing a threefold profitability margin despite rising network difficulty, according to data from Glassnode. New results from the Bitcoin (BTC) Difficulty Regression Model ...

Bitcoin (BTC) mining stocks tracked by JPMorgan have enjoyed a strong start to the year, with 12 of the 14 companies outperforming the world's largest cryptocurrency in the first two weeks, the ...

Sabelo Mnguni, a spokesperson for the Mining Affected Communities United in Action Group told The Associated Press that a cellphone sent to the surface with some rescued miners Friday had two ...

Sabelo Mnguni, a spokesman for the Mining Affected Communities United in Action Group (MACUA), said a mobile phone sent to the surface with some of the rescued miners on Friday had videos showing ...

The standoff between police and miners began last November, when police surrounded the abandoned gold mine’s entrance, with the goal of forcing the miners to emerge and then arresting them.

Rescue operations were underway at a gold mine in South Africa’s North West province where hundreds of illegal miners have been underground for months. More than 50 bodies were brought to the ...