The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off food ...

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 ...

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

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

Police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the ...

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

Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 60 ...

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

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