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, ...
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 ...
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.
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
Rescuers are sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest mines. It comes after more than 100 are ...
In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...
Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 60 ...