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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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