80 rescued after mine collapses in Dominican Republic, no damage or demise reported

Crews within the Dominican Republic on Tuesday (October 21, 2025) rescued 80 miners who grew to become trapped after a mine partially collapsed. No one was injured or killed, in keeping with the Civil Defence Agency.

The miners grew to become trapped when a portion of a zinc and copper mine within the Cerros of Maimón collapsed, a press release from the Ministry of Energy and Mines stated.

The mine is positioned in a rural space northwest of the capital, Santo Domingo, the place family had anxiously awaited the rescue of their family members.

The ministry stated earlier that each one miners had been positioned underground in a secure space and had been being lifted to higher floor.

The Dominican Mining Corp, a subsidiary of the Australian firm Perilya, holds the concession for the Cerro of Maimón mine, which spans an space of two,245 hectares (5,547 acres).

The firm operates an open-pit copper and zinc mine with reserves of roughly 6 million tonnes of these minerals. The concession was acquired from Falconbridge Dominicana in April 2002.

Local media reported that comparable incidents have occurred up to now, with one miner killed in a collapse in December 2021.

Then in 2022, two staff, one Dominican and the opposite Colombian, had been rescued after spending a number of days trapped by an underground landslide.