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 Africa gold mine - with hundreds still trapped - Death toll is expected to rise as rescuers pull out both surviors and ...

Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue ...

Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more still believed to ...

A rescue operation is underway at an abandoned South African gold mine where illegal miners were trapped. Initially, over 78 ...

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South African authorities sought to end illegal gold mining in a derelict gold mine in Stilfontein. Their strategy was to cut off the supplies that were being sent down to the miners to keep them ...