A specialized camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer- (1.6-mile-) deep mineshaft in South Africa ...
More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
Nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally underground at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine south west of Johannesburg, police ...
A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold ...
Residents desperately waiting for news of family members gathered at the mine, some holding placards criticizing authorities ...
The national crackdown against illegal mining began in late 2023, in part spurred by the rise of violent crime in communities ...
The Buffelsfontein gold mine in South Africa has become a grim site with dozens of illegal miners dead and more trapped ...
Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more still believed to be underground, many of them dead and others too weak to come out on their ...
The mine has been the scene of a tense standoff between police and miners since authorities launched an operation to force ...