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 ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working ...
Environmentalist Justin Landry Chekoua says he’s shocked by images of century-old trees uprooted and rivers contaminated in ...
South African police said Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors ...
Rescuers are sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest mines in an attempt to bring out survivors ...
A total of 246 survivors were rescued in a court-ordered operation but were immediately arrested for illegal mining.
TELLER COUNTY, Colo. — An accident at a tourist gold mine in Cripple Creek that killed a man and left more than a dozen ...
An investigation into last year’s accident that left 12 people trapped, 4 injured and 1 dead in the Mollie Kathleen Mine in ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...