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 ...

Boulby’s two shafts ... map. Mr Byrski has worked at Boulby for 34 years – rising from shovelling the conveyors belts to a district overseer, and now working part-time as part of the roof inspection ...

The film in question could be a remake of Labyrinth, the 1980s cult classic directed by Muppets creator Jim Henson. Sneider reports that Eggers is reteaming with Icelandic poet Sjón (with whom he ...

YouTuber and Minecraft architect Grazzy recently finished building Breath of the Wild's entire, surreal open-world map in the sandbox game after three years of toiling. "I'd put this idea off for ...

A scale model of Giant Mine compares the mine's chambers, which store arsenic trioxide, to a building in Yellowknife. The pink chamber is already frozen, the white one is not, and the Precambrian ...

NASA's multibillion dollar Artemis program isn't just about sending astronauts back to the Moon. It's about paving the way for mining operations. China is also on a similar trajectory. All of this has ...

left behind by decades of mining when South Africa was the world’s biggest gold producer. It’s also operating century-old underground shafts around Barberton, the site of the country’s first ...

Four key trends that will continue to influence the mining sector in 2025. Credit: dee karen via Shutterstock. Four key trends that shaped the mining sector in 2024 – digital acceleration, the energy ...

A system of pulleys and ropes installed by members of the South Africa Police Service is set up over an entrance to a disused gold mine shaft in Stilfontein, around 150 kilometres south-west of ...

JSE-listed gemstone producer Gemfields has halted operations at its Montepuez Ruby Mining (MRM) in northern Mozambique following an attempted invasion of the site by about 200 people the company ...

And yet, at least according to reporter Jeff Sneider, that’s exactly what could happen, as Sony has Eggers setting his sights on a reboot of 1986 movie ‘Labyrinth.’ The original movie was ...

Down a shaft that plunged more than a mile below the earth in South Africa’s old mining heartland, a man’s life hung in the balance. After weeks working – then later, trapped and starved by ...