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

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

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

In a distressing turn of events in South Africa, at least 100 illegal miners have died in an abandoned gold mine. Despite extensive efforts by authorities to extract the trapped individuals, the ...

A new law decades in the making could finally lead to the cleanup of some of the thousands of abandoned mines in Colorado that leak toxic metals and acid into the headwaters of the rivers that ...

South African authorities have ome under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months CAPE TOWN ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought dozens of bodies and ...

Rescue operations at an abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein, South Africa, have led to the recovery of nine bodies and the rescue of over two dozen illegal miners, amid ongoing efforts to reach ...

South Africa's police have launched a manhunt for an alleged "kingpin", who is accused of controlling operations at an ...