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Rescuers in Chile are racing to find the last two workers trapped in a mine after an earthquake.The state-owned Codelco company announced on Sunday that four…

198417 June7pmA meeting is held at Silverwood Miners Welfare, in Rotherham.Arthur Scargill in 1984. Photograph: Jane BownScargill, now president of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM),…

More than four decades after the violent policing at Orgreave during the miners’ strike and a failed prosecution criticised as a police “frame up”, the government…

Ministers have announced an inquiry into the violent policing at Orgreave and the collapsed prosecutions of 95 miners accused of offences there, 41 years after the…

Documents destroyed by police relating to operations at Orgreave during the miners’ strike in 1984 are believed to include a report on a notorious incident in…

Minaçu, a small city in inland Brazil and home to the only asbestos mine in the Americas, is set to become the first operation outside Asia…