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 ...
South Africa — Rescuers sent a cage-like structure down into one of South Africa’s deepest gold mines on Tuesday to bring out survivors among hundreds of miners who were working illegally in ...
Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
A monthslong police intervention to coax workers from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has ended with 87 workers declared dead, authorities confirmed Thursday. More than 240 survivors have ...
Workers trapped in a deep gold mine in South Africa for nearly nine months have told how they survived this time. The illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a mine last year ...
About 6,100 closed mines are distributed across the country. Although closed, they are not sealed. Residual gold remains in ...
CARLETONVILLE, South Africa ... mine. It was the beginning of discussions about how to bring the miners to the surface. It also was the first time a specially designed cage that can be lowered as ...