The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...

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

By Nellie Peyton and Bhargav Acharya STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an ...

Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out hundreds of people from an illegal gold mine near ...

The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...

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

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold ...

South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of ...

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

Interpol says a major operation targeting illegal gold mining in West Africa has resulted in 200 arrests and the seizure of ...

A rescue operation is underway at an abandoned South African gold mine where illegal miners were trapped. Initially, over 78 ...