Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, where at least 109 men have died, a group representing the miners said, ...

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

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...

South African police say there's nobody left in ... when he first told her he'd be going down into the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein to mine illegally. At first, Tom says ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

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

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...

Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out hundreds of people from an illegal gold mine near ...

Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all ...