The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...

The crane would occasionally stop and start, leaving him dangling in the darkness. Once he got down into the mine, he was ...

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

In South Africa a months long stand-off between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...

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

Hundreds, if not thousands, of miners have been trapped underground at a disused mine in South Africa for weeks as a police ...

This is arguably the worst mass murder of miners due to state actions and a series of decisions since the dawn of democracy, ...

A Congolese court has sentenced three Chinese citizens to seven years in prison after they were arrested in possession of ...

Operations continue at Stilfontein mine following an order by the Gauteng High Court instructing the government to rescue ...

The derelict Stilfontein shaft is just one of 6 000 that have been abandoned by South Africa's gold extraction companies.

South Africa harbors up to 100,000 artisanal miners, known locally as “zama zamas” with most of the minerals derived from artisanal mining “sold to the black market, and international ...