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

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

Dozens of men sat and lay together in small caves, some so shallow they couldn’t stand up. The air was wet and stuffy, and ...

Specifically, the initiative will target Geita Region, a known hotspot for artisanal gold mining in Tanzania. The initiative aims to enhance local and national efforts to combat the worst forms of ...

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

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

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

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

South African authorities have ome under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

Hundreds of illegal miners are trapped underground and more than 100 are believed to have died in one of South Africa's deepest gold mines. Videos taken by one of the miners showed bodies wrapped in ...

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