South African police lowered a camera down more than 1.5 km underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ascertain if any survivors or corpses were still there after a months-long siege by ...

Authorities now believe that nearly 2,000 miners had been underground working illegally at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

South African police said Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors ...

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

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

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

Police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the ...

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

South African police have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners were trapped ...