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

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 ...

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 ...

A critical area in which the mining industry can drive meaningful change is by establishing itself as a strategic partner to ...

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

A second miner has died in hospital after being pulled alive from an illegal South African gold mine from which 87 bodies were extracted, the government said Friday.

South African authorities lifted the bodies of 60 people from an abandoned gold mine, police have said. Hundreds more people ...

The police said that the operation will continue for several days, as it involves the use of a metal cage to recover men and ...