Authorities face possible investigation into their initial refusal to help miners and instead 'smoke them out' by cutting off ...

It will be a "mammoth task" to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...

No illegal miners remain underground after four days of a rescue operation at the abandoned Stilfontein <a target=_blank ...

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

Rescuers retrieving illegal miners from a disused South African gold shaft said on Thursday a final sweep appeared to show ...

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

The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...

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

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...

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