Between 1872 and 1982 the Park City mining operations were home to 34 operating mining shafts varying from 275 to over 2,400 feet deep. The sides of the shafts were supported with timber frames and ...

While the South African government claims that many illegal miners in Stilfontein have voluntarily emerged from abandoned shafts, the Stilfontein Crisis Committee reports that miners remain trapped, ...

One mile down under the North Sea, with temperatures that can reach 40C, Boulby Mine can be found near the village of ...

Such a tragedy unfolded in the Dima Hasao district of India’s Assam state on Monday when a coal mine unexpectedly flooded, ...

In June 1974, the offices of the Summa Corporation in LA were broken into, sparking the revelation of one of the oddest and ...

The UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter is the U.S. Army’s primary medium-lift utility transport and air ... GE-701 turboshaft engines rated at 1,560 shaft horsepower each. Internal fuel is stored ...

When automated ships threaten their recovering ecosystem, it falls to Ah Ma and the crew of the Mousedeer to fight back.

A replica of an 1870s mine shaft, a popular display, shows the working conditions of the time when hoisting engineers and lift operators went down into a tunnel for no more than 20 minutes at a time, ...

Pump jack is a component which converts the rotary motion of the motor to a vertical reciprocating motion to drive the pump shaft to lift up oil from oil wells ... the end-use industries such as oil & ...

Last February, three-piece punk rock band Other Half packed their instruments into a humble Astra and headed to France on ...

Known as tajen, cockfighting has long been an important cultural ritual for the Balinese. Known as Tubuh Rah, or pouring ...

“It’s kind of hard to tell whether it’s a big deal or not a big deal.” Route 80 sinkhole: Sinkhole in Wharton caused by abandoned mine shaft The ovoid depression is one of many pits, shafts, and ...