At the mouth of every tunnel there is a small shrine to Saint Barbara, the patron saint of miners. To get to the boring machine we are driven for an hour in a buggy in the tunnel. It can quickly get ...

The Marlette Flume was hardly Nevada’s only 19th-century engineering wonder: the Silver State’s rise was built on ambitious ...

Check out the creepy Tunnels trailer for this claustrophobia-inducing VR horror experience in which players are trapped deep underground in an abandoned mine shaft. Armed with only their wits, they’ll ...

We explore five tunnels at the historic Estelle Mine, navigating everything from short passages to long, perfectly leveled shafts. Along the way, we encounter unexpected sights like swirling clouds of ...

The mountain range is central to the origin story of several tribal nations and has become an international symbol of the ...

Some shafts are over 200ft deep, and new artefacts - such as Victorian bottles, gunpowder horns and mine clogs - are still being found. The underground system is so extensive that some tunnels are ...

A judge appointed in December to help mediate an agreement between Montana Tunnels Mining, its key creditors and potential buyers that might resolve the company’s long-running bankruptcy case has ...

Harrow Hill: a Neolithic flint mine today Neolithic flint mines are the earliest industrial monuments in Britain. First dug into the chalk from around 4000 BC, these shafts were cut in order to ...

The one is the shaft-boring project ... by 17%-plus compared with traditional tunnelling operations. In mining, tunnels are key for accessing mineral resources and providing transportation ...

Another mine that has suffered collapses in the ... to have a steam engine delivered from England to pump out its shafts and tunnels. Flooding nevertheless remained a problem for the Schuylers ...

A proposed mine beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness that has been a beacon of hope for mining proponents and a source of concern for environmental groups could get a green light from federal ...

Pedro had gone to the mine shaft with his young brother to collect ... Heavy rains also loosen ground and destabilise tunnels. The inexperienced miners do not know how to use machinery properly.