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

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.

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 ...