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 ...

An incident at a former Colorado gold mine that ... and the history of mining in Colorado." But federal authorities have warned that active and abandoned mine sites still "pose serious risks ...

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 ...