The mine gave way after heavy rains on Wednesday, a local rebel spokesman says.

(Corrects first name of spokesperson in paragraph 1) Jan 30 (Reuters) - More than 200 people were killed this week in a collapse at the Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

The government blames rebels, but such accidents are sadly common ...

The Rubaya mine collapse in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than 200 people, including miners, children, and market women ...

A landslide last week collapsed tunnels at a major coltan mining site in eastern Congo, leaving at least 200 people dead.

Tragedy struck the mineral-rich hills of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo this week, as a sudden collapse at the Rubaya coltan mine claimed the lives of more than 200 people, local officials ...

The collapse happened Wednesday due to heavy rains at the rebel-controlled Rubaya mines. Congo is a major supplier of coltan, which contains a key component in the production of smartphones.

In mineral-rich Rubaya, source of most of the world’s coltan, miners suffer poverty and dangerous working conditions.

A landslide last week killed at least 200 people in eastern Congo at a rebel-controlled coltan mine and families of the ...

Australian mining giant BHP will face trial before a British court from April next year to determine how much it must pay in ...

Rights groups have raised concerns over conditions at the mine, which supplies about 15 percent of the world’s coltan.