Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

left behind by decades of mining when South Africa was the world’s biggest gold producer. It’s also operating century-old underground shafts around Barberton, the site of the country’s first ...

OKAPI WILDLIFE RESERVE, Congo--For eight years, a Chinese mining company has been vastly expanding inside an endangered World Heritage Site ... mineral wealth such as gold and diamonds.

Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 60 ...

Down a shaft that plunged more than a mile below the earth in South Africa’s old mining ... disused mines which, with gold prices reaching record highs this year, have become sites of turf ...