A body was brought out Thursday of an abandoned gold mine shaft in South Africa where hundreds of illegal miners were believed to be underground, facing arrest if they surface, police said.

JOHANNESBURG - The body of an illegal miner has been retrieved from an abandoned mine shaft in Stilfontein in the North West. This is the first body retrieved since the beginning of an impasse ...

Rate of black lung disease among miners may be 10 times higher than reported Lung disease is a well-known deadly consequence of working in the coal industry. But a new NPR study finds miners are ...