Members of the South African police, patrol as they guard the mine shaft where rescue operations are ongoing as attempts are made to rescue illegal miners who have been underground for months in ...
The leadership of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, an independent professional institute of international standing for over 130 years, notes with sadness the gravity of the ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
The bodies of 78 dead miners have been retrieved from a shaft in Buffelsfontein mine’s Shaft 11 after being trapped ...
South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...
David van Wyk sees transforming abandoned mines into development facilities as a solution to illegal mining, creating jobs ...
(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) STILFONTEIN, South Africa. (AP) — Dozens of men sat and lay together ... and there is nothing you ...
where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an ...
A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) ...