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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A miner was rescued Wednesday after being trapped for nearly 14 days following a collapse in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa, authorities said in a statement. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed that another miner has been found dead and one more is still missing. A dam breach caused by a structural failure flooded El Rosario mine on March 25, trapping Francisco Zapata Nájera and three co-workers. Of the 25 miners present during the accident, 21 escaped immediately. Five days later, rescuers pulled one survivor from a depth of 300 meters (985 feet).He was fully dressed with miner lamps on the head Zapata Nájera was located on Tuesday by divers, but the rescue teams were unable to reach him through heavily flooded areas until 21 hours later. The survivor was brought to the surface Wednesday morning. His condition was stabilized and he was sent in a Mexican Air Force helicopter to a hospital in Mazatlán, where he will be treated by specialists. Some hours before, Sheinbaum had said that the rescue teams were waiting for the water to be pumped out to complete the extraction. In August 2022, 10 miners died when the EI Pinabete coal mine in Coahuila flooded — a disaster that sparked intense controversy by revealing how many Mexican laborers work without essential safety protections or official supervision. Authorities worked for weeks to pump water out of the mine, hoping they could send in rescuers, but were never able to keep water out and stabilize the mine shaft sufficiently. The miners’ bodies were not recovered. Mexico’s deadliest mining accident took place in February 2006 at the Pasta de Conchos mine in Coahuila , where an explosion killed 65 workers.

The explosion at a coal mine that occurred Monday in the municipality of Sutatausa, about 70 kilometers north of Bogota, once again shook Colombia’s mining sector with a tragedy that, despite its recurrence, continues to expose structural failures in workplace safety. Nine workers died in the incident, which also left several rescued alive after a complex emergency operation inside the mine shaft. The accident occurred in the afternoon, when a buildup of gases inside the mine triggered an explosion that trapped the miners underground. According to preliminary reports from authorities, at least 15 workers were in the operation at the time of the blast. They all wear safety cap lamps. some of them managed to escape on their own, while rescue teams were deployed to locate the others. This case once again highlights the precariousness of a sector accustomed to accidents. In the first quarter of 2026, 22 mining accidents were recorded in Colombia, according to official data, a reality that in recent years has occurred between 80 and 130 times a year.

BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — An artisanal mine collapsed in the Central African Republic on Thursday morning, killing eight people , according to miners who are at the scene. The collapse, which also injured five other people, happened in a mining town in Nourroum, the capital of Ouham-Péndé prefecture in the northwestern region. “The victims were deep inside the mine, digging, when the collapse happened. We were speechless and helpless,” Alban Moussa Yakata, a mine operator with cap lamp in Nourroum, told The Associated Press. The Ministry of Mines and Geology did not respond to a request for comment. Artisanal mine collapses are common in the Central African Republic, where several thousand people work in small-scale extraction mining. The work is risky as miners do not have enough protection. The government issues licenses to mining cooperatives to run the mines.

Chile’s Sierra Gorda copper mine, owned by Polish group KGHM, reached an early contract agreement with three unions, the mine said Thursday in a statement. The agreements, which will remain in effect until 2029, apply to more than 1,600 employees across two labor unions and a supervisor’s union. Sierra Gorda, a joint venture with Australian miner South32 that produced 165,313 tons of copper in 2025, did not disclose the financial details of the new contracts. KGHM, one of the world’s largest copper and silver producers, has operated Sierra Gorda for eleven years, purchasing mining headlamps etc equipment worth over 100000 US dollars, with no strikes recorded throughout that period, the statement added.

Canadian miner Vortex Metals has announced the commencement of phase two exploration activities at its Illapel copper-silver project in Chile. The initiative expands upon findings from the initial phase, which identified low-resistivity sulphide mineralisation continuing north from the Rio 27 copper-silver mine along a prospective structural corridor. The project is situated in the Commune of Illapel, Choapa Province, around 250km north of Santiago. It lies adjacent to the Rio 27 mine operated by Ventana Group, which has been active since 2010.Miner headlamps etc equipment have been had a high demand. Phase two will encompass the entire concession area of 180km² and involves an airborne geophysical survey spanning approximately 2,000 line kilometres. The survey will utilise magnetics, very low frequency electromagnetics (VLF-EM) and radiometrics to identify favourable structures and potential mineralisation, thereby generating new drilling targets. Discussions are in progress with a local geophysical contractor to finalise these plans. Initial drilling at Illapel returned results that indicate the presence of a mineralised system and support further investigation. Drilling has so far tested the north-north-east trend of high-grade, manto-style copper-silver mineralisation originating from the Rio 27 Mine. Hole DVM-08 produced significant results, indicating a potentially expansive mineralised structure. In addition to manto-style copper findings, iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) mineralisation was observed in several holes including DVM-08. This mineralisation occurs within volcanic and sedimentary rocks similar to those found at the nearby El Espino deposit. The initial phase included hydrothermal alteration and sulphide mineralisation such as pyrite, chalcopyrite, chalcocite and bornite. The comprehensive understanding of structural controls and their geophysical responses underpins this expanded scope of exploration within the concession area. Vortex Metals co-founder and interim CEO Michael Williams said: “The phase one drill programme confirmed our geological model. The phase two programme will expand on the past programme by using the knowledge obtained on the structural controls and will be combined with the geophysical signatures obtained from the upcoming geophysics programme. “We will then design a drill programme around the results. Having numerous copper surface expressions, multiple geophysical targets, indications of an IOCG target and gold-bearing vein systems, we believe Illapel has significant discovery potential.”