only to find themselves plunged into some of the world’s deepest gold mines, forced to work for weeks, if not months, on end. South Africa’s gold shafts can be 1 km or deeper, requiring ...

Residents of Khuma want the abandoned mine reopened to create jobs and boost the local economy, but mining expert Ingrid ...

Miners in South Africa, who take risks by entering abandoned mines to search for leftover gold, had no option but to survive by eating the bodies of dead workers.

At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

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 ...

South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...

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 ...