Underground
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Blog
South Africa’s illegal mining industry: Gang-controlled ‘towns’ grow underground
Ndumiso works at a different shaft at the mine, and surfaced last month, before the current stand-off. He is now…
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Politics
South African miners trapped underground: What you need to know | Mining News
Hundreds – possibly thousands – of miners remain trapped in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa’s northwestern Stilfontein town,…
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Africa
Stilfontein mine: Thousands of illegal ‘zama zama’ miners remain underground in South Africa
Many South African mines have closed down in recent years and workers have been sacked. To survive, the miners and…
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Blog
Valencia floods: Spanish rescuers search underground car parks
Spanish rescuers are focusing their search for missing people on underground garages and a multi-storey car park following last week’s…
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Discoveries & Research
Research uses lasers to detect landmines, underground objects
Enough landmines are buried underground worldwide to circle Earth twice at the equator, but the identification and removal of these…
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Literature:
Farewell Gary Indiana: underground hero who chronicled the fallacies of erotic life | Culture
“An American writer.” That’s how Gary Indiana, who has died aged 74, described himself to me when I first ran…
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Technology
California Can Slake the Thirst of Its Farms by Storing Water Underground
For example, two winters’ worth of snow followed by intense heat created a flood risk in 2023. State officials decided…
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