South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ...

Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 60 ...

The Stilfontein Crisis Committee said even though all surviving miners have been rescued, the shaft is littered with body ...

Authorities now believe that nearly 2,000 miners had been underground working illegally at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine ...

The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned ...

More than 250 illegal miners have been retrieved since the start of phase three this week, with 78 dead bodies being recovered.

South African police lowered a camera down more than 1.5 km underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ascertain if any survivors or corpses were still there after a months-long siege by ...

Rescue workers were conducting a final sweep at a mine in Stilfontein in the North West province on Thursday to determine ...