Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

One African country is home to the deepest gold mine in the world with staggering depths and intense temperatures.

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Soldiers killed at least seven people at a gold mine in southern Ghana ... The statement also said that Ghana’s government “wishes to express deep regret” over the tragic loss of ...

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

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at ...

In a sign of the importance Russia places in its relationships in Africa, Vladimir Putin met Thursday with Touadéra ... One of those companies owns rights to the Ndassima gold mine, located 440 ...

He had looked for work unsuccessfully she said, and was driven by desperation to eke out a dangerous living deep ... South ...