CARLETONVILLE, South Africa (AP) — A specialized camera was lowered late ... the miners who were trapped while working ...
Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Mine rescue workers host up a cage that was used to rescue trapped ...
Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87.
A critical area in which the mining industry can drive meaningful change is by establishing itself as a strategic partner to ...
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...
South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing from a disused mine in South Africa where 246 ...
South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6,000 abandoned or closed mines to search for leftover deposits.