Deaths of illegal miners reflects that country’s troubled circumstances and need for aid from Elon Musk and others.
The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...
About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...
Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...
Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
Illegal miners trapped nearly a mile below ground reportedly avoided dying of hunger by resorting to cannibalism.
South Africa’s mining industry reported 42 deaths last year, the lowest number to date and a 24% improvement on the previous ...
Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues ...
The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...
Thousands of illegal miners working at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, near Johannesburg, surrendered but around 400 remained - with only 324 of them making it out alive ...
In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...
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