A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

Police in the North West have arrested five illegal miners who resurfaced at Margaret Shaft in Stilfontein. Two of the ...

The bodies were discovered during an intense four-day rescue operation from Monday, 13 January. A total of 246 survivors, ...

Police in the North West have called for relatives of the 78 bodies that were recovered at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine’s shaft no. 11 during the Mine Res ...

Zimbabwean authorities are reportedly reluctant to directly confront the South African government over the deaths of 20 Zimbabweans at the Buffelsfontein Gold ...

The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...

Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

Miners in South Africa, who take risks by entering abandoned mines to search for leftover gold, had no option but to survive ...

At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

The Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission says the outcome of the Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell project, if it ...

Workers trapped in a deep gold mine in South Africa for nearly nine months have told how they survived this time. The illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a mine last year ...

SURVIVORS who were trapped in one of the deepest gold mines in South Africa have spoken out about turning to cannibalism to ...