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

South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of ...

National Police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe has confirmed that the mine rescue experts will conduct a final sweep at the disused Stilfontein mine shaft on Thursday. Since August last year, a total ...

Ukraine blew up the No. 3 mine's shaft in the village of Pishchane in Donetsk Oblast to prevent Russia from deploying its troops closer to the front-line town of Pokrovsk, The New York Times (NYT) ...

The Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine elevator breakdown was “not attributed to current mine practices or equipment malfunctions,” ...

FRANCISTOWN: Following numerous failed attempts to rescue an illegal miner who is trapped in an old mine shaft, police have revealed that the deceased's body is decomposing underground. In early ...

Illegal miners had taken over the mine shaft that was once part of South Africa’s vast mining industry. No longer viable for commercial mining, the men - many of them migrants from neighbouring ...

Rescuers have pulled out at least 60 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine in South Africa, police said - adding that the survivors would all face illegal mining and immigration charges.

They said many of the miners are too weak or ill to climb out. The mine is 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) deep and has multiple shafts, many levels and is a maze of tunnels, and the community mining ...

Police are uncertain how many miners remain inside the illegal mine but said it is likely in the hundreds. Miners, many from neighboring countries, entered the shaft near Stilfontein, about 140 ...

Six bodies were brought up from the mine in early December and one in November. There have been claims recently that there were more than 100 corpses underground. Two miners' rights groups released a ...