Around 60 miners trapped underground on Tuesday after an accident and fire at Zimbabwe's Mimosa platinum mine have been brought back to the surface without injury, the company said.

"All employees have now been safely evacuated from the mine. No injuries have been reported," said a statement from Mimosa, which is a joint venture between South Africa's Impala Platinum (Implats) and London-listed Aquarius Platinum Ltd.

It said it was too early to assess the impact on output at the mine, which produced 104,000 ounces of platinum group metals in its last financial year.

The bodies of five miners have been removed from a mine that collapsed last Sunday in Northeast China's Liaoning province, bringing the death toll to nine, local authorities said Wednesday.

Twelve miners were working in a newly-dug shaft in the Qingshui No 2 Mine, located in the provincial capital of Shenyang, when the shaft's roof collapsed at 11 am Sunday, according to a press release issued by the provincial coal mine safety supervisory bureau.

Seven people remain trapped underground following a coal mine accident in Southwest China's Yunnan province, local authorities said Tuesday.

A total of 10 people, including the coal mine's manager, a safety inspector and eight workers, became trapped after a coal mine shaft caved in Monday afternoon at a coal mine in Luxi County, a government spokesman said.

Three people were rescued as of 9 am Tuesday, the spokesman said.

The 10 people were inspecting the mine's ventilation facilities when the accident occurred, he said.

About sixty miners were trapped at Zimbabwe's Mimosa mine following an accident on Monday evening, the president of the local miner workers union said.

"There are 85 people who were trapped at 5:30 pm yesterday but more than 20 have been rescued so far. A bearing which moves the conveyer collapsed and the conveyer belt caught fire," Shadreck Pelewelo, the president of the National Mine Workers Union of Zimbabwe, told Reuters by telephone on Tuesday.

The trapped men were in good condition and were receiving food, he added.

Mining in Aravalli continues unabated despite a Supreme Court ban on it.

The consequent price in terms of human casualty is huge - on Thursday, at least 10 labourers were feared killed when a stone mine collapsed due to blasting in the forest land near Bhiwadi in Rajasthan's Alwar district.

Five bodies were found, including two, on Friday. An operation was on to recover more bodies.

With this, the total toll related to mining activities in the district has risen to 48 in the past two years.

Nine coal miners were killed and 16 injured in a blast at a colliery in northern China on Monday, state media said, the latest accident to hit the notoriously dangerous industry in the country.

Four people were killed on the spot when the explosion rocked the mine in Bayannur city, in Inner Mongolia, and five more bodies were found hours later by rescuers, the Xinhua news agency said.

Dhanbad/Bokaro, April 18: Union coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal today held the state government responsible for the delay in relocation of people from fire-affected areas in Jharia, arguing the Centre had poured sufficient funds into the rehabilitation plan. “The Union government can offer money, technical expertise and even lay out a plan on how to put out the raging fire in Jharia, but the work has to be done by the state government. The Centre cannot be blamed,” Jaiswal told The Telegraph at the Bokaro aerodrome en route to Dhanbad.

At least 15 miners were killed in two mine floods in China over the weekend, as rescuers frantically pumped mining shafts in search of seven still missing in the accidents, state press said yesterday.

The death toll in a flood that occurred early yesterday at the illegally operating Shanfu coal mine in north China's Shanxi province rose to 10, Xinhua news agency said. One miner remains missing and rescue operations continue.

The mine owner, manager and 19 others have been taken into police custody as part of the investigation.

Peruvian miners trapped for six days in an abandoned copper mine prayed, told each other jokes and even danced in an attempt to hold onto hope, before they finally were freed Wednesday. The miners, above, ranging in age from 23 to 58, walked out, unaided, from a reinforced tunnel that rescuers had built as they removed more than 26 feet of dirt and rock. The miners were trapped by a cave-in caused by an explosion they themselves had set at the Cabeza de Negro mine.

State’s Tall Claims To Check Illegal Practices Fall Flat Once Again

Alwar: Two labourers were buried alive in an illegal mine after stones came crashing on them during an explosion in Alwar’s Tapukara police station area on Tuesday night. As the police and rescue workers could not take the bodies out of the debris till Wednesday night, the tall claims of state government to have enforced the Supreme Court’s complete ban on illegal mining in the area fell flat with these horrifying deaths.