Even though potato fields are filled with plants of the same variety, potato growth often varies widely. This puzzle has long intrigued farmers, biologists, and suppliers of seeds. Even ...

Some claim that potatoes fall under that category. But are they right? "Potatoes are one of the earth's most versatile ingredients," registered dietitian and recipe writer Micah Siva tells USA TODAY.

Rescuers have hoisted illegal miners and several bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, where reports emerge that hundreds may be trapped and at least 100 may have already died.

Six more bodies have been recovered from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where scores of people have reportedly died underground since authorities tried to force them out and seal the mine ...

South African rescuers have pulled 36 bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine in two days of operations, police say, adding that the survivors would face illegal mining and immigration charges.

Southeastern Idaho's P4 phosphate mine is a cornerstone of its local economy, producing elemental phosphorus vital for glyphosate, an herbicide crucial to protecting crops like potatoes ...

Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out hundreds of people from an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, police pulled out 60 bodies as part of a search-and-rescue ...

By John Eligon The South African authorities said on Tuesday that they had pulled dozens of dead miners from a shuttered gold mine where they were working illegally until a blockade during which ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s pre-emptive tariff threat several weeks ago against the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, among others) who want to usurp the U.S. dollar ...

Barrick Gold Corp. said it’s suspending mining operations in Mali after the government started removing gold from the nation’s biggest mine in the latest escalation of a months-long dispute.

Rescue workers retrieved bodies bodies of miners from a flooded rat-hole coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district by Saturday (January 11, 2025) afternoon. Four bodies have been recovered so far ...

The mine, near the frontline city of Pokrovsk, produced coking coal crucial for Ukraine’s steel industry. It kept running until the very last moment, when Russian forces finally reached its gates.