An accident at a platinum mine in South Africa has killed 11 workers ... but the union was welcome to come forward with its concerns. Equipment was checked on a daily basis, the spokesman added.

Hours after the blast, an accident hit another mine in eastern Ukraine. An elevator used to transport miners and equipment into and out of the Bazhanova mine in the eastern Donetsk region ...

Professor Burgess-Limerick said safety on mine sites was managed systematically and "very conscientiously" and disasters were ... human-centred design of mining equipment and mining systems.