Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...

No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue ...

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

A total of 78 bodies and 166 survivors - some of them emaciated and disorientated - have been hauled out so far in a ...

By Nellie Peyton and Bhargav Acharya STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) -At least 78 dead bodies have been pulled from an ...

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

The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...

South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of ...

Interpol says a major operation targeting illegal gold mining in West Africa has resulted in 200 arrests and the seizure of ...

Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...

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