Photos from the scene show men - some emaciated - being carried out on stretchers after being rescued from the mine.

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

Based on recent statistics, countries mining the most gold globally are revealed, along with their impact on the global ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...

South African authorities have ome under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

In South Africa, a months-long standoff between police and illegal gold miners has resulted in over 100 deaths. This surge in illegal gold mining has highlighted the growing dangers of the industry.

AT LEAST 100 illegal miners have died after becoming trapped in a South African gold mine for months on end. They had been in ...

ALBAWABA - South African police retrieved the bodies of 60 illegal miners during the past two days from a disused gold shaft, ...

An effort to rescue survivors in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died in South Africa was put an end on ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...

Supplies were cut off to over 400 miners, nearly 2km deep, in a crackdown on illegal gold mining at the abandoned site.

STILFONTEIN, Jan 16 — At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an illegal gold mine in South Africa where police cut off ...