South Africa has some of the world's deepest gold mines, some of which reach kilometers underground, according to the Minerals Council South Africa. sms/ftm (AP, AFP, Reuters) Send us your feedback ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine STILFONTEIN, South Africa -- Rescuers and volunteers have pulled ...

Six more bodies have been recovered from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where scores of people have reportedly died underground since authorities tried to force them out and seal the mine ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, where at least 109 men have died, a group representing the miners ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more ...

Mali’s military junta started executing an interim order to seize gold at a mine run by Barrick Gold Corp., escalating a dispute over the West African government’s share of revenues from the ...

Rescuers have sent a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest gold mines to bring out survivors among hundreds of illegal miners trapped for months in an abandoned shaft ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa—At least 78 people have died after authorities imposed a blockade on an illegal gold mine here, part of a monthslong standoff between prospectors and a government ...