A gemstone dealer has received a four-month suspended prison sentence for illegally mining more than 8 tonnes of turquoise ore at a Northern Territory sacred site.

The mummified remains of a man buried close to a turquoise mine in Chile's Atacama Desert suggest he was a miner who died in a tragic occupational accident.

A high resolution CT scan has turned a silent bundle of ancient cloth into the clearest account yet of a deadly workplace accident in the pre-Columbian Andes. The imaging shows that a 1,100-year-old ...