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Rescuer workers assist an illegal miner who has been trapped deep in an abandoned gold ... encountered several complications, as the rescue cage being used holds fewer than 10 people at a time.

No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine ... check that no-one was left on Thursday, when a rescue cage would be sent down the mine. The stand-off began in ...

However, once the cage is set up and goes down empty, food can be sent down ... in the plight of the trapped miners. In setting out the path for the ConCourt application, that court had directed ...

where reports emerge that hundreds may be trapped and at least 100 may have already died. A professional mine rescue company sent a large cage into the mine shaft near Stilfontein, about 140km (90 ...