Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
One African country is home to the deepest gold mine in the world with staggering depths and intense temperatures.
Rescuers have sent a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest gold mines to bring out survivors among hundreds ...
More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...
South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ... Africa’s deepest mines since ...
The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...
Rescuers have sent a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest gold mines to bring out survivors among hundreds of illegal miners trapped for months in an abandoned shaft ...
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 ...