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

South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...

Newly sworn-in U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will declare illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border a ...

The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

Based on recent statistics, countries mining the most gold globally are revealed, along with their impact on the global ...

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...

South Africa's police have launched a manhunt for an alleged "kingpin", who is accused of controlling operations at an ...

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

Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...

A South African bishop has described in detail what he saw and heard as the bodies were being taken from an abandoned gold ...

South African police are searching for a Lesotho gang leader, known as 'Tiger', who escaped during a police operation at an ...