Rescuers racing to clear a disused South African gold shaft of illegal miners said Thursday a final sweep appeared to show ...

A rescue operation at South Africa's Stilfontein mine has come to an end after 248 living miners and 78 bodies were retrieved ...

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

STILFONTEIN, South Africa - South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold ...

The South African Police Service revealed that only 26 out of the over 2000 illegal miners that resurfaced from Stilfontein ...

On Thursday, cameras were lowered 1,000 metres of the 2.6km deep shaft to scan for signs of life. No movement was seen on ...

By Siyabonga Sishi and Nellie PeytonSTILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts ...

A coal miners’ strike was having an impact on all aspects of lives back in 1972. In South Shields, a 77-year-old woman sat in ...

The Assam government on Thursday announced a judicial enquiry and a police Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the Umrangso coal mine incident, in which nine workers were trapped with bodies ...

The rescue operation for suspected illegal miners, both alive and deceased, at the Buffelsfontein gold mine's Shaft 11 in ...

A probe is underway into the deaths of 78 suspected illegal miners who have been pulled out from the Stilfontein mine in the ...