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

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

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In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.

Illegal mining is waging war on the South African economy, with the illicit trade costing the economy at least R60 billion in ...

Rescuers have hoisted illegal miners and several bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, where reports emerge that hundreds may be trapped and at least 100 may have already died.

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about a week after resurfacing from a disused mine in South Africa where 246 ...

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

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

South African rescuers have pulled 36 bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine in two days of operations, police say, adding that the survivors would face illegal mining and immigration charges.

Authorities have grappled with informal mining for years Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa where companies close down mines that are no longer profitable, leaving groups ...