In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...

A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police ...

The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...

More than 17,000 alleged illegal miners, many from neighbouring countries, have surfaced in South Africa during a police ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ...

Trapped up to 2.5 kilometres underground, the miners faced horrific conditions, with some resorting to cannibalism to survive ...

Investigators determined that the incident at the Colorado tourist mine was "not attributed to current mine practices or equipment malfunctions." ...

South Africa’s president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining ...

Rescuers retrieving illegal miners from a disused South African gold shaft said on Thursday a final sweep appeared to show nobody was left underground, after 78 bodies and more than 200 miners were ...