In South Africa a months long stand-off between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...

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

South Africa's president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining ...

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

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

A rescue team in South Africa has finished a recovery operation to find more than 200 miners trapped in an abandoned gold ...

More than 70 people have reportedly died while trapped in a mine after a monthlong standoff with the South African government ...

By Nellie Peyton and Xolani Nhlapo STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -South African rescuers ended their attempts on ...

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