Running at a staggering depth of 3,891 metres down and 2,062 metres below sea level, a colossal mine in Africa is the deepest and richest gold mine in the world. Mponeng gold mine began producing ...

Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery has implications for medicine, energy efficiency, and astrobiology. Which ...

Running at a staggering depth of 3,891 metres down and 2,062 metres below sea level, a colossal mine in Africa is the deepest and richest gold mine in the world. Mponeng gold mine began producing gold ...

How amazing that from up above, Earth appears round and smooth, yet its oceans can have craters so deep they could hide the ...

Groups representing the miners have disputed official accounts of the situation, saying the group is trapped underground in one of South Africa's deepest mines ... is no way on earth anyone ...

Houston-based startup Quaise Energy is testing technology that melts and even vaporizes rock to unlock "superhot" rock ...

Trapped nearly a mile under the earth, the illegal miners were forced ... and 246 survivors from a shaft of one the country’s deepest mines. The government has tried to crack down on the illegal ...

Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth ... gold mine shaft in Stilfontein Last week rescuers retrieved 78 bodies and 246 survivors from abandoned shafts of one of the country’s deepest mines.