Miners in South Africa, who take risks by entering abandoned mines to search for leftover gold, had no option but to survive ...

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

Workers trapped in a deep gold mine in South Africa for nearly nine months have told how they survived this time. The illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a mine last year ...

Residents of Khuma want the abandoned mine reopened to create jobs and boost the local economy, but mining expert Ingrid ...

At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...

In South Africa, illegal miners make a living by trespassing in old gold mines to retrieve what ... from a shaft of one the country’s deepest mines. The government has tried to crack down ...

SURVIVORS who were trapped in one of the deepest gold mines in South Africa have spoken out about turning to cannibalism to survive. The illegal gold miners had been trapped in the abandoned ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

in South Africa’s North West province, where police had waged a deadly standoff with illegal miners. The small town, once a thriving hub for gold mining, had been in decline since the early 2000s.

(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) STILFONTEIN, South Africa. (AP ... for a few weeks to a month in one of the country's deepest gold mines, where there are no longer any official operations.