At least 78 people have died after authorities imposed a blockade on an illegal gold mine here, part of a monthslong standoff ...

Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...

A total of 78 bodies and 166 survivors - some of them emaciated and disorientated - have been hauled out so far in a ...

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

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...

No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue ...

The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...

Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...

A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold ...

South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of ...

Interpol says a major operation targeting illegal gold mining in West Africa has resulted in 200 arrests and the seizure of ...

A rescue operation is underway at an abandoned South African gold mine where illegal miners were trapped. Initially, over 78 ...