Authorities have come under scrutiny for refusing to help the miners for months and claiming they were able to get out on ...

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

At least 78 people have died after authorities imposed a blockade on an illegal gold mine here, part of a monthslong standoff ...

South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...

Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...

No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African authorities have pulled at least 60 bodies from the shaft of a closed gold mine more ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts on Thursday to ascertain whether ...

A deadly siege on an illegal gold mine near Stilfontein, South Africa, has resulted in at least 78 miner deaths, with ...

At least 100 illegal miners have died and more than 400 remain trapped underground after a months-long standoff with police, ...