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

South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

The standoff between police and illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine has led to at least 87 deaths. Authorities faced criticism for cutting off food supplies, leading to charges ...

A technical team driving an operation to shutdown an illicit mining network sent high-tech equipment down shaft 11 earlier on ...

A total of 246 survivors were rescued in a court-ordered operation but were immediately arrested for illegal mining.

The death of a tour guide at a Colorado mine tour in October was caused by "operator error," not mine practices or equipment ...

Rescuers have sent a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest gold mines to bring out survivors among hundreds ...

Rescuers retrieving illegal miners from a disused South African gold shaft said on Thursday a final sweep appeared to show ...

More than 250 illegal miners have been retrieved since the start of phase three this week, with 78 dead bodies being recovered.