In South Africa a months long stand-off 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 ...

The crane would occasionally stop and start, leaving him dangling in the darkness. Once he got down into the mine, he was ...

A rescue team in South Africa has finished a recovery operation to find more than 200 miners trapped in an abandoned gold ...

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

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at ...

More than 70 people have reportedly died while trapped in a mine after a monthlong standoff with the South African government ...

The latest tragedy has seen at least 78 bodies and over 200 survivors brought to the surface from a mine in Stilfontein.

David van Wyk sees transforming abandoned mines into development facilities as a solution to illegal mining, creating jobs ...

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...

In South Africa, nearly 2,000 illegal miners faced starvation and dire conditions in abandoned mines after a police crackdown. Many miners died due to lack of food and supplies. This illegal mining ...